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Subject Headings for Focused Results
• Minority group
– Suni Muslims– Native Americans– Hearing impaired– Mexicans– Haitians
Precision of Using Assigned Subject Headings
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– Sight impaired– Pakistanis– Vietnamese– Congolese– Navaho– Puerto Ricans
Minority groups: Minority groups
– Chinese– Arab Americans– Seminoles– Learning disabled– Gays and lesbians– Quadriplegics
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– Navaho
• Minority groups:•
– African Americans
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– Cubans•
– Sikhs– Jews
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– Eskimos
Suggested Subjects
Abstract with Subject Headings
Narrow Results by Subjects
List of Subjects Used in Records
ERIC Thesaurus
ERIC Thesaurus: Identify Subjects
Using the ERIC Thesaurus for List of Types of Educational Tests
ERIC Field Codes
Methods of Obtaining Subject Headings
ERIC Subject Headings
• Achievement tests• Questionnaires• Rating scales• Surveys• Testing• Test bias• Test reliability• Test theory• Test validity
Subject Searching in Specialized Databases
• ERIC subject headings and other functionality• PsycINFO subject headings and other
functionality• Medline MeSH subject headings
NSU
• Action research• Appreciative inquiry• Autoethnography• Biographical research• Case study research• Discourse analysis• Ethnography • Focus groups • Generic qualitative description• Grounded theory• Interviews• Mixed methods• Narrative analysis• Naturalistic observation• Oral history• Participant observation• Participatory action research• Phenomenography• Phenomenology• Portraiture• Qualitative evaluation research• Qualitative meta-synthesis• Qualitative program evaluation
Possible Terminology for Qualitative Research
• Types of qualitative research • Analytical approach• Conversation analysis• Critical analytic practice• Discourse analytic practice• Ethnomethodology• Feminist approaches• Foucaultian framework• Narrative research
PsycINFO Thesaurus
PsycINFO Thesaurus
– MEASUREMENT – RATING-SCALES – TEST-VALIDITY – ATTITUDE MEASURES – DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW SCHEDULE – QUESTIONNAIRES – SCREENING-TESTS
Useful PsycINFO Subject Headings Dealing with Psychological Tests
– PSYCHOMETRICS – INVENTORIES – TEST-FORMS – TEST-CONSTRUCTION – PERSONALITY-
MEASURES – TEST-SCORES – TEST-RELIABILITY
ERIC Thesaurus: Identify Subjects
• Ethnography• Qualitative• Grounded-theory• Thematic-analysis• Content-analysis• Observational-methods• Constant-comparative
-method• Field-notes• Participant-observation• Narratives• Field-studies• Audio recording• Focus-groups
Other Databases and Subject Headings
• CINAHL • Medline• Qualitative
research• Nursing
methodology research
• Qualitative research
• Grounded theory
• Interviews• Observation
methods
PsycINFO
ERIC• Qualitative research• Grounded theory• Ethnography• Field studies• Focus groups• Interviews• Naturalistic observation• Participant observation
PsycINFO: Using the Methodologies Field
Locating Research in CINAHL:Publication Type
Using Clinical Queries to Limit Searches in CINAHL and Medline
High Sensitivity
Precision versus Recall
High Specificity
Precision versus Recall
Best Balance
Precision versus Recall
Searching EBSCO Databases
ERIC Search Option:Educational Level
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