Searching in Discovery will also retrieve books and ebooks
Follow these keyword search examples in the library catalogue.
school system* AND instructional leader*
leadership AND classroom instruction
instructional leader* AND student achievement
leader* AND school performance
school improvement AND evaluation
curriculum AND leader* AND school*
Use truncation to extend search results - e.g. Leader* will retrieve Leader, leaders and leadership
Add "quotation marks" to retrieve a specific phrase.
Use the term OR to find synonyms or alternative terms- e.g. school performance OR key performance indicators OR KPI
Use brackets around alternative terms to create order in your search - e.g. (leader* OR principal*) AND teacher effectiveness
Reference books can be an excellent starting point for locating quick, background information and developing an understanding of a topic. Here are some suggestions that may help you get started.
PLEASE READ:
Use these links to find items with these subject headings in the library catalogue.
academic achievement
classroom management
curriculum enrichment
educational accountability
educational leadership
educational planning
motivation in education
school administrators
school improvement programs
school management and organization
Teacher effectiveness.
Teacher effectiveness -- Australia.
The University of Melbourne organises books on the shelves using Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). |
Try exploring at the following call numbers when you browse the Giblin Eunson Library collections.
344.0407 Australian educational law and legislation
371.106 Teacher participation in administration
371.2 School management and organization
371.2012 School principals
371.207 Educational planning
378.1 Higher education and administration
379 Education and state
379.15 Educational change
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Explore the catalogue of over 20,000 videos from the world’s most prominent filmmakers and production houses. Specially curated collections cover a wide range educational disciplines including literacy, mathematics, history and issues in society. Kanopy also offers a hosting service allowing for DVDs to be uploaded and streamed online provided digital rights is obtained. Kanopy offers a large range of Australian content and videos can be searched using the library catalogue.
Follow these keyword search examples in the library catalogue.
school system* AND instructional leader*
leadership AND classroom instruction
instructional leader* AND student achievement
leader* AND school performance
school improvement AND evaluation
curriculum AND leader* AND school*
Use the following techniques to improve your search statements and results (e.g. to find more of the results with a variation of the word form, more focused results with the exact phrase included, a larger set of results with all the possible words in the results, or more accurate combination of the possible search terms).
Truncation (* $) searches for variant endings E.g. leader* = leader, leaders, leadership |
Quotation marks (" ") searches for an exact phrase E.g. "educational theory" |
OR operator expands your search to find similar words or synonyms E.g. (assessment OR measurement) |
Brackets to create correct processing order in searches E.g. ("primary school" OR "secondary school") AND assessment |
Use the following techniques to improve your search statements and results (e.g. to find more of the results with a variation of the word form, more focused results with the exact phrase included, a larger set of results with all the possible words in the results, or more accurate combination of the possible search terms).
Truncation (* $) searches for variant endings E.g. leader* = leader, leaders, leadership |
Quotation marks (" ") searches for an exact phrase E.g. "educational theory" |
OR operator expands your search to find similar words or synonyms E.g. (assessment OR measurement) |
Brackets to create correct processing order in searches E.g. ("primary school" OR "elementary school") AND assessment |
Follow these keyword search examples in the library catalogue.
school system* AND instructional leader*
leadership AND classroom instruction
instructional leader* AND student achievement
leader* AND school performance
school improvement AND evaluation
curriculum AND leader* AND school*