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This research guide will point you toward online research resources and strategies available to you as scholars doing research at Pepperdine.

Use this guide throughout the research process to help you have the best support for your thesis and research.

ERIC Thesaurus
The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors (Thesaurus) is a controlled vocabulary - a carefully selected list of education-related words and phrases assigned to ERIC records to organize them by subject and make them easier to retrieve through a search.

The Almanac of American Education
The Condition of Education
Digest of Education Statistics
Education State Rankings
National Center for Education Statistics
NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education
RAND California
Reports and statistics from RAND, one of the country's premier think tanks, in the areas of education, economics, demographics, health care, government, and more.
KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being
Download the complete report.

ICPSR Direct This link opens in a new window
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
Access to encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
World Education Encyclopedia (2d ed. 2001) This link opens in a new window
Access to a country-by-country survey of educational systems of 233 countries.