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Subject Guide: Education
Books
Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):
- Adolescence in America: An Encyclopedia (REF HQ 796.A33247)
- Boyhood in America: An Encyclopedia (REF HQ 775.B635)
- Child Development (REF HQ 772.C436)
- Encyclopedia of Education (REF LB15.E47)
- Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia (REF HQ 777.G5745)
- The Family in America: An Encyclopedia (REF HQ 536.H365)
- Encyclopedia of Educational Research (REF LB15.E48 1992)
- Education: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources (REF LB15.B89 2000)
- Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education (REF LB1139.25 .E53 1992)
- Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education (REF QA11 .E665 2001)
- Growing Up (REF HQ 767.84 B76)
- Handbook of Early Literacy Research (REF LB1139.5.L35 H37 2006)
- Handbook of Educational Terms and Applications (REF LB15.E419 1996)
- Handbook of Learning Disabilities (REF LC 4704.H364 2003)
- Handbook of Reading Research (REF LB1050.H278 2000)
- Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children (REF LB1119.H25)
- Handbook of the Sociology of Education (REF LC 191.H254 2000)
- Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks (REF 1561.M4)
- Massachusetts Educator Certification Tests (REF LB 1763.M4M37)
- Praeger Handbook of Urban Education (REF LC 5131 .P7 2006 v.1-2)
- Teacher Certification Requirements In All Fifty States (REF LB1771.T43 2000-2001)
- Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors (REF Z695.1.E3)
- World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide (REF LB15.W87 2001)
Search the NOBLE Web Catalog for more print and electronic books owned by McQuade Library. Try these sample subject headings:
| Education | Schools |
| Gifted Children | Special Education |
| Learning | Teachers |
| Learning Disabilities | Teaching |
| Multicultural Education | Communication in Education |
Articles
Print and Electronic Periodicals:
The library subscribes to a number of education journals in print. These are located in the Periodicals Room on the second floor of the library. There are also many full-text electronic journals available in the library's online databases. For a complete list of the library's periodicals holdings in both formats, go to Journal Finder. Here, you can search by title or subject for all print and full-text electronic periodical holdings.
Selected journals, magazines, and newspapers on the Web:
Search these databases to find articles. (For off-campus access you will be prompted to enter the 14-digit barcode number on the back of your Merrimack ID).
- ERIC
(via EBSCOhost) contains citations and abstracts from
educational and education-related journals, as well as full text
of more than 2,200 digests.
- Education
Research Complete (via EBSCOhost)
includes 750 active full text journals, indexes
over 1,500 journals and includes full text for more than 80 books
and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference
papers. It spans all levels of education from early childhood
to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as
multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education
Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction
as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social
issues.
- Education
Index is a bibliographic database that
indexes all aspects of education.
- ProQuest
Education gives users access to over 745 top
educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in
full text.
- Professional
Collection (via INFOTRAC) offers full-text periodicals
for teachers and school administrators.
- Academic
Search Premier (via EBSCOhost) provides indexing and
selected full-text articles in a variety of disciplines including
education and education-related topics.
- Expanded
Academic ASAP (via INFOTRAC) provides indexing and
selected full-text to scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers.
- JSTOR
provides full-text core scholarly journals in the humanities,
social sciences and sciences, many of which date back to the 1800's.
- Wiley Interscience search the full text of over 300 leading journals (including education) published by John Wiley & Sons.
Web Sites
Directories
- Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resources Collections
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- WWW Virtual Library: Education
General Guides
- ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
- Education Week on the Web
- Education Resource Organizations Directory
- Educator's Reference Desk
- U.S. Department of Education
- What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching
Children"s Literature
Instructional Materials and More
- Blue Web'n: A Library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites on the Web
- CAL - Center for Applied Linguistics
- Curriculum Archive
- Columbia Education Center
- DiscoverySchool
- Education World
- ENC Online
- FREE--Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- Gateway To Educational Materials
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- Lesson Plans Library
- The Literacy Web
- New York Times Learning Network
- PBS Teachersource
- The Solution Site
- World Lecture Hall - For college and university teachers
- Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) - For college and university teachers
Learning Disabilities
School Psychology
Statistics
Theory
Local Resources
- McQuade Library
- McQuade Library Educational Resources Collection
- Massachusetts Department of Education
- Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
Professional Organizations
- American Association of University Professors
- American Educational Research Association
- American Federation of Teachers
- Council for Exceptional Children
- International Reading Association
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- National Education Association
- National Science Teachers Association