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This guide is for students in Ellen Walroth's WRC 1023 class researching the Achievement Gap.
This page provides links to the various resources available at the UTSA Libraries and beyond for your research assignment.
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- Last Updated Feb 18, 2013
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The Achievement Gap
Use the links below to find background information, books, articles and websites on the Achievement Gap.
First, use Gale Virtual Reference Library,a UTSA Libraries database where you can get background on the topic.
Use the following keywords: students and achievement and education
Second, use UCAT, the library's catalog, to locate books and e-books.You can do a simple keyword search, like "achievement gap." You can also do an expert keyword search, with keywords like students and achievement and education. Pay special attention to the Subject Headings in the catalog. You can also do a subject search to target resources relevant to your topic:
Children with social disabilities--Education--United States
Education, Urban--Social Aspects--United States
Academic Achievement--United States
Educational Change--United States
Third, use ERIC, Professional Development Collection, EconLit, Academic Search Complete, or JSTOR to find articles from magazines, trade publications, and scholarly journals. Use keywords such as achievement gap, education, academic achievement, etc. Use the full text links or the Find It @ UTSA button to get the actual article.
Keywords
What are good keywords to use when researching the achievement gap? These may be helpful when mining the UTSA Libraries for sources.
Pay attention to the subject headings and descriptors in databases, too, because they will often lead you to the pots of gold.
| students | achievement | ethnicity |
| grade levels | academic achievement | socioeconomic |
| high schools | academic success | poverty |
| urban schools | graduation | foreign countries |
| specific countries | dropout | specific countries |
| culture | school districts | culture |
| politics | spending | politics |
| society | teacher pay | society |
| spending | teacher training | spending |
| budgets | class size | budgets |
| Equality in Education | No Child Left Behind | minority studies |
| race | class | digital divide |
| net generation |
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