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Education Research Guide

The Education program at Prescott College includes a wide variety of courses and areas of study, including Assessment & Measurement; Characteristics & Practices in the Young Child's Behavior; Children & Nature; Classroom Management; Child Growth & Development; Curriculum Design; Early Language & Literacy; Health, Safety, & Nutrition; Learning Theories; Science: Methods & Practice, and various Special Topics.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Keywords Article Databases eJournals Web Resources Research Methods Citation Styles Statistics Organizations

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Online:

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology

Ebooks:

Approaches to Learning : A Guide for Teachers

EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargons

Encyclopedia of African-American Education

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

Experiential Learning: A Best Practice Handbook for Educators and Trainers

Historical Dictionary of American Education

Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States

Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education

Key Elements of Classroom Management

Powerful Learning

Understanding by Design -2nd edition

On the Reference Shelf:

Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of American Education

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism & Bilingual Education

Encyclopedia of Educational Research

Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia

Keywords

Article Databases

EBSCOhost, including Academic Search Premier and Environment Complete. Full-text articles in over 4,700 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,250 journals in the collection. EBSCOhost includes ERIC and Education Research Complete.
GoogleScholar "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web".
JStor a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Prescott College subscribes to Arts & Sciences Collections I and IV, Biological Sciences Collection, and Language & Literature Collection.
ProQuest, including Research Library, provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward.