Scholarly research can come in many forms, but is most often how academics document their studies and share the conclusions of their work. Traditionally, education research most often takes the forms of books, articles, conference presentations, and dissertations. You should feel free to engage with the many formats of scholarly research that education researchers produce, but depending on your needs, some formats might make more sense than others.

In education, it can be important to read research articles to better understand very specific topics. You may have also heard these articles referred to a "scholarly article" or "academic article." All of these phrases refer to a specific type of scholarly research that is vetted through a peer review process before being published. Watch the following video to learn more about peer review.

Video transcript

The following databases are a great place to start to find relevant, peer-reviewed articles and other types of scholarly research within the broad research area of education, or you can check out our full list of databases to see what other resources might be helpful to you based on your topic.