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Education Research Courtney Fuson 615-460-5492 [email protected]
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Education Research

Courtney Fuson

615-460-5492

[email protected]

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Today we’re talking about:

How to recognize and locate scholarly resourcesHow to effectively search the library’s databasesHow to evaluate resourcesHow to distinguish between different citationsHow to use a bibliography (or works cited) to

identify potential sources

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Scholarly Resources

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Scholarly Resources

AKA “peer reviewed”, “refereed”, “journal articles”discipline-specificpeer-reviewedwritten on a higher reading levelwritten by a credentialed authorcite their sources

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Library Catalog

Provides access to everything the library owns or has access toBooksJournalsE-booksE-journalsDatabasesMedia

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Database

Collection of newspaper, magazine and journal articles

Can include dissertations, reports and other resources

http://library.belmont.eduClick on Get ResourcesClick on Research GuidesClick on Education to see all of the education resources

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Effective Searching

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Search Strategies

Keyword searchingBoolean Searching

• AND• OR

Subject searchingThesaurus

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Boolean Café

And , Or, and Not stop in at the Boolean Café for dessert.

And knows exactly what she wants. She orders chocolate AND strawberries.

Or is a big eater with a sweet tooth. He orders chocolate OR strawberries.

Not has to be a bit more careful. He is allergic to strawberries, so he orders chocolate NOT strawberries.

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AND

Supreme Court education

Supreme Court AND education

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OR

inclusion

special educationmainstreaming

inclusion OR mainstreaming OR special education

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Search strategies

Supreme Court AND educationinclusion OR special education OR mainstreaming

public schools AND (inclusion OR mainstreaming OR special education)

“special education”

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Thesaurus

list of subjects and related terms used to standardize the descriptions of articles in the database.

You can select and search for synonyms, related, and preferred terms.

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Other resources

Government DocumentsDepartment of Education (state & federal)

StatisticsNational Center for Education StatisticsNational Assessment of Educational ProgressNation’s Report CardCensus Bureau

http://delicious.com/library_chic/belmontedu

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Evaluate it!

Great! I found some stuff! Now what?

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Evaluate it!

AccuracyAuthorityCurrencyObjectivityCoverage/Purpose

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Reading Citations

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Reading citations

Is it a…BookBook chapterArticleDissertationReport

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Book

Torp, Linda, & Sage, S. Problems as possibilities: Problem-based learning for K-12 education. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. 1998.

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How do I find books?

Torp, Linda, & Sage, S. Problems as possibilities: Problem-based learning for K-12 education. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. 1998.

Library’s catalogTitle search

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Article

Sterling, Donna R., and Hargrove, Dori L. "Is Your Soil Sick?."Science & Children 49.8 (2012): 51-55. 

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How do I find articles?

Sterling, Donna R., and Hargrove, Dori L. "Is Your Soil Sick?."Science & Children 49.8 (2012): 51-55. 

Library’s catalogJournal Title

 

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Dissertation

Tsoukalas, Jillian M. "Exploring Problem Based Learning to Promote 21st Century Learning Skills in Full Day Kindergarten." Walden University, 2012.

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How do I find dissertations?

Usually availably only through InterLibrary LoanProQuest lists many dissertations (ProQuest

Dissertations & Abstracts)Library catalog of the publishing universityWorldCat (http://worldcat.org)

Tsoukalas, Jillian M. "Exploring Problem Based Learning to Promote 21st Century Learning Skills in Full Day Kindergarten." Walden University, 2012.

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Report

Johnson, L and Adams, S. "Challenge Based Learning: The Report from the Implementation Project". New Media Consortium (2011).

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Reports?

Johnson, L and Adams, S. "Challenge Based Learning: The Report from the Implementation Project". New Media Consortium (2011).

Try the publishing agency’s websiteTry Google or Google ScholarTry a subject-specific database (ERIC)

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Reports?

King, Martha L., and Rentel, Victor M. How children learn to write: A longitudinal study. Report to the National Institute of Education, Washington, D. C. 1981.

Try the publishing agency’s websiteTry Google or Google ScholarTry a subject-specific database

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POP QUIZ!

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Eisenhard, Margaret and Borko, Hilda. Designing Classroom Research: Themes, Issues, and Struggles. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1993.

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Saul, Wendy, and J. Carrie Launius. "Making the Case for ACTION Research." Science Scope 34.1 (2010): 24-29. 

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Turner, Susan A. "Teaching research to teachers: A self-study of course design, student outcomes, and instructor learning." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 10.2 (2010): 60-77. 

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Stumped?

In person – 3rd floorOffice hours: M-F 8am-4:30pm

(other times available by appointment)Via email – [email protected] By phone – 615-460-5492Online – http://belmont.libguides.com/education

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Important Links:

Library Home page: http://library.belmont.edu

Education Resources -

http://belmont.libguides.com/education

Today’s slides: http://slideshare.net/library_chic

More education resources -

http://delicious.com/library_chic/belmontedu


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