Edited Books
Smith, M C. (Ed.). (2008). The handbook of research on adult learning and development.London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Smith, M C. (Ed.). (1998). Literacy for the 21st century: Research, policy, practices and the National Adult Literacy Survey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Smith, M C., & Pourchot, T. (Eds.). (1998). Adult learning and development: Perspectives from educational psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Book Chapters
Smith, M C. (2008). Literacy in adulthood. In M C. Smith (Ed.), The handbook of research on adult learning and development (pp. 601-635). London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Smith, M C. (2008). Does service learning promote adult development? Theoretical perspectives and directions for research. In S.C. Reed & C. Marienau (Eds.), Linking adult with community: Promoting civic engagement through community based learning. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 118, 5-15. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Smith, M C. (2007). Adults as learners: Teaching and learning. In B. Guzzetti (Ed.), Literacy for a new century, Vol. 1 (pp. 39-58). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Smith, M C., & Smith, T.J. (2008). Low-education adults' participation in informal learning activities: Relationships with selected demographic characteristics. Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal,
2(2), 67-73.
Shumow, L., Smith, T.J., & Smith, M C. (2008). Academic and behavioral characteristics of young adolescents in self care. Journal of Early Adolescence, 29(2), 233-257.
Holt, J.K., & Smith, M C. (2005). Literacy development among different ethnic groups: The role of socioeconomic and cultural factors. Reading Research & Instruction, 44(3), 1-21.
Pourchot, T., & Smith, M C. (2004). Some implications of life span developmental psychology for adult education and learning. PAACE Journal of Lifelong Learning, 13, 69-82.
Smith, M C., & Winking-Diaz, A. (2004, Winter). Increasing student' interactivity in an on-line course in adult development. Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2(3). Online at
http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/archives/2004/winter/03/index.html.