Edu 6070 fall2012

Education Research

Courtney Fuson

615-460-5492

courtney.fuson@belmont.edu

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

Scholarly Resources

Scholarly Resources

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

Where can you find scholarly articles?

InternetGoogle?Google Scholar?Wikipedia? – References list?

LibraryCatalog?Databases?

Library Catalog

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

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

Effective Searching

Search Strategies

Keyword searchingBoolean Searching

• AND• OR

Subject searchingThesaurus

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.

AND

Supreme Court education

Supreme Court AND education

OR

inclusion

special educationmainstreaming

inclusion OR mainstreaming OR special education

Search strategies

Supreme Court AND educationinclusion OR special education OR mainstreaming

public schools AND (inclusion OR mainstreaming OR special education)

“special education”

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.

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

Evaluate it!

Great! I found some stuff! Now what?

Evaluate it!

AccuracyAuthorityCurrencyObjectivityCoverage/Purpose

Reading Citations

Reading citations

Is it a…BookBook chapterArticleDissertationReport

Book

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

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

Article

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

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

Dissertation

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

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.

Report

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

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)

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

POP QUIZ!

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

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

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. 

Stumped?

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

(other times available by appointment)Via email – courtney.fuson@belmont.edu By phone – 615-460-5492Online – http://belmont.libguides.com/education

Important Links:

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

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