EDR 610: INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

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EDR 610 INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

• Karen Jaggers
• library.education_at_nau.edu
• 1-800-247-3380
• karen.jaggers_at_nau.edu
• 928 428 8305

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Session goals

• Locate books, videos, ebooks, dvds, etc
• In Cline Library
• Other libraries through WorldCat
• Locate scholarly articles on your topic
• Request material through Cline Library

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Cline Library

• www.nau.edu/library

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Locate scholarly articles on your topic.

• Education subject page or Course Resource Page
• ERIC (Ebsco) Helpful features
• Limits, indexes, thesaurus
• Downloading, printing
• Bookmark course resource page or Subject page

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Databases

• Academic Search Premier all topics
• ERIC - education, psychology of education
• Wilson Omnifile - limit to education
• PsycInfo - psychology lots of empirical research
• Sociological Abstracts - sociology
• Dissertations Theses

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Preparing to search

• Write your topic in a sentence
• Highlight words in the sentence that you want to
  search
• Group words
• Use or to connect synonyms (broaden)
• Use and to combine different concepts (narrow)
• Use not to exclude words

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Other material

• Scholar.google.com
• Conference proceedings
• Government information
• Statistics
• Images, pictures, graphs
• Biographies
• Books written by an educator

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Boolean Visuals

• Boolean Rock and Roll
• Boolean Aids and HIV
• Boolean Cats and Dogs
• Boolean Ice Cream flavors

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Too many citations

• Reduce the number of or terms
• Select more specific terms Use Thesaurus or
  Indexes
• Limit
• grade level or elementary secondary
• education, higher education,
• elementary education, middle
• school students, etc.
• Date
• Scholarly or peer reviewed
• Journal articles

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Too few citations

• Check citations for more Keywords
• Consider subjects on search results page and
  within individual records
• Check Thesaurus or Indexes for broader terms or
  synonyms

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Ref Works

• Locate information, add the citation to RefWorks.
  
• Import citations from ERIC and other databases
• Use WritenCite to write the paper, connect
  citations from RefWorks, print the bibliography
  in APA or other formats

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Using the ASU Library

• Arizona State University
• NAU Student Card Any registered student of
  Northern Arizona University with current ID and
  proof of registration. Free
• Locations Directions Parking http//www.asu.edu/li
  b/services/community/visitors.htmul
• Libraries, services, resources, faq
  http//www.asu.edu/lib/services/community/visitors
  .htm
• Main Library (Hayden)
• Hours, floor plan, audio tour http//www.asu.edu/l
  ib/libraries/hayden/

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Refereed/Peer Reviewed/ Scholarly

• Limiting within a database
• Ulrichs
• Help in locating a peer reviewed journal (linked
  under EDR 610)
• Using What is a Peer Reviewed Journal?
  www2.nau.edu/jaggers (linked under EDR 610)

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