Your lecturers have requested that the maths journals be grouped to provide guidance about quality and purpose of titles. Use these lists to inform your decision making about whether an article is a suitable reference for your assessment task.
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When you need to locate articles about a specific topic for your assessment tasks, the most efficient approach is to search by keyword in the recommended education databases as they index the contents of thousands of journals. |
Depending on your research topic, be prepared to think laterally and consider general education journals in the areas of cognition, teaching methods, learning styles and educational psychology.
Major research journals
Your lecturers will often require you to cite articles that report original research.
Other research journals
Practitioner's titles
Practitioner or professional titles are aimed at supporting teachers who are working in schools.
What is a scholarly peer reviewed journal?
Scholarly Journals
- Contain articles written by and addressed to experts in a discipline.
- Report original research or experimentation.
- Cite their sources in footnotes or bibliographies.
Peer-reviewed (or refereed) journals
- Only publish articles that have passed through a review process, and have been approved by scholars or experts.
- Many databases provided the option to limit your search results to peer-reviewed titles
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Tip: You can use the UlrichsWeb : global serials directory to check if a journal is peer-reviewed.
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