A Social Work Research Guide

Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work. https://agesw.org/

Scholarships, fellowships, internships, etc. for undergraduate and graduate degrees. https://www.aigcs.org/

Database of systematic reviews in business, crime, disability, education, international development, knowledge translation, methods, nutrition, social welfare. https://www.campbellcollaboration.org/better-evidence

A multidisciplinary database. Includes datasets, research instruments, reports, journal citations, etc. Useful for anyone working in the area of early childhood. https://researchconnections.org/

"... an open access resource for faculty and librarians." "It is intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with research assignments and sharing the success or lessons learned so that others may benefit. The database will contain multiple, reliable and reproducible research assignments..." https://www.projectcora.org/

"The Education Resources section is a compendium of resources collected as a part of CSWE initiatives." Includes: Advance Practice Statements; Assessments; Assignments; Bibliographies; Case Studies; Class Exercises; Film & Media; International; Lectures; Reports; Syllabi; Teaching Materials; Websites. https://cswe.org/Education-Resources

By: Hilary N. Weaver, Lacey M. Sloan, Carenlee Barkdull, Palama Lee
https://www.cswe.org/getattachment/Education-Resources/Indigenous-and-Tribal-Content/CSWE-Statement-of-Accountability-and-Reconciliation-for-Harms-Done-to-Indigenous-and-Tribal-Peoples.pdf

Free online courses from instructors at 33 universities. https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.chea.org/directories

See the Education and the Researchers boxes on the subpage, "Freely Searchable Databases by Subject for Alumni." https://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=46890&p=301116#s-lg-box-888614

List of all accredited social work degree programs. https://www.cswe.org/accreditation/directory?

U.S. Department of Education homepage. Has tabs for Laws and Data. https://www.ed.gov/

Missouri government's main web page for education. https://www.mo.gov/education

Free online college level courses from some universities including MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley. https://www.edx.org/

Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Macro Social Work Practice; Curricular Guide for Licensing and Regulation; Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice; Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Military Social Work; Curricular Guide for Economic Well-Being Practice; Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Gero Social Work Practice. https://cswe.org/Education-Resources/2015-Curricular-Guides

Premier database on education. https://eric.ed.gov/

University of Maryland, Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation. One of 16 subject-oriented clearinghouses operated by the US Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. "The 350 full-text "best books and journal articles," subdivided by topic, provides easy access to significant material available online..." https://ericae.net/

"...links to some of the best sources for shared educational content, lectures, video, images, academic journals and reference sources." https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/developer-resources/librarians

"From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers 125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactives, completely free." Goodwill Community Foundation and Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC, Inc. https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/

Provides information related to admissions, testing, and applications to graduate programs (US and internationally). https://www.gradschools.com/

Current. International Association of Schools of Social Work. See the School Members tab. https://www.iassw-aiets.org/our-members

"The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education...An initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences." https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

Free video tutorials on hundreds of K-12 topics. https://www.khanacademy.org/

"MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy." https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

"...free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all of the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT." https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) is proud to release CHCI NextOpp, a new powerful online version of its National Directory of Scholarships, Internships, and Fellowships for Latino Students. https://chcinextopp.com/guest-landing/

Educational resources, information, and statistics. https://www.niea.org/

"...project of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) designed to house culture-based education (CBE) curriculum aligned with Common Core State Standard (CCSS). The repository will serve as a clearinghouse for quality curriculum respectful of cultural and traditional knowledge and utilizing innovative instructional strategies to ensure Native students succeed." https://www.niea.org/culture-and-language-based-curriculum?rq=curriculum

By SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library. Searches over 50 sources for open educational resources including books, audiobooks, videos, and podcasts. https://oasis.geneseo.edu/

"...helps educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources through a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Common's growing collection of 50,000 high-quality OER." Look for No Strings Attached, or Remix & Share, or Share only resources. https://www.oercommons.org/

"Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community...Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content..." https://www.openculture.com/

Free to use textbooks and courses. https://www.cccoer.org/learn/find-oer/

Free to read educational resources and textbooks. https://opensocialwork.org/

https://opensocialwork.org/education/textbooks/

Free to read textbooks on numerous topics. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

Textbooks that are free to read. https://openstax.org/

Free to read books and educational materials published through the Pressbooks software. https://pressbooks.directory/

Homepage for the public school district for the City of St. Louis. https://www.slps.org/

"...Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses. There are no registrations or fees required to take our courses..." https://www.saylor.org/

https://www.sswaa.org/

https://www.sswam.org/

U.S. Department of Education. https://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/

For statistics, see the Education box on the statistics subpage. https://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=46890&p=301062#s-lg-box-890020

Self-paced learning modules on open educational resources (OER). https://sites.google.com/austincc.edu/texaslearnoer/module-1-introduction-to-this-course

"We review the research on the different programs, products, practices, and policies in education...we try to answer the question “What works in education?” Our goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions." https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/