ERIC is the leading database to find articles on an education topic. It will lead you to peer-reviewed journal articles, books, lesson plans, and other documents.
You can search by:
- keyword (free text)
- title word
- subject term (descriptor)
- publication type
Descriptor searching is the most focused. You can look for descriptors in the ERIC thesaurus. The idea is to refer to a concept with the same term every time, so that you can retrieve everything about your topic, without having to grapple with synonyms.
You can limit your ERIC search to peer-reviewed articles, by checking a box.