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Education: Reference Sources

Print, electronic, and media resources for Education.

Why use Reference Sources?

Encyclopedias, subject-specific dictionaries and other reference books provide excellent background/overview information on a topic; they can be an excellent place to begin research.

Selected Online Reference Books on Education

Encyclopedia of African-American Education by Jones-Wilson, Faustine C.
Publication: Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1996.

 Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia by Bank, Barbara J.; Delamont, Sara; Marshall, Catherine
Publication: Westport, Conn Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007.

Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States by Eisenmann, Linda
Publication: Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 1998.

Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegregation: The American Experience by Raffel, Jeffrey A.
Publication: Westport, Conn. Praeger, 1998

Encyclopedia of Distance Learning by Howard, Caroline.
Publication: Hershey, PA Idea Group Reference, 2005.

Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-cultural Assessment by Hambleton, Ronald K.; Merenda, Peter Francis; Spielberger, Charles Donald
Publication: Mahwah, N.J Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005.

Monitoring the Learning Outcomes of Education Systems
Directions in Development (Washington, D.C.) by Greaney, Vincent.; Kellaghan, Thomas.
Publication: Washington, D.C. World Bank, 1996.

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