Below are listed preferred databases for Education. All Databases as a resource are predominantly collections of primary, scholarly peer-reviewed literature.
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Step 1
TOPIC: Learning Technologies for Education
The bolded terms are key words. Our task now is to convert these keywords into concepts or terms that can be mapped to a search in the database ERIC.
Educational Technolog*
Step 2:
Trends
Step3:
How to combine step 1 and step 2 in some meaningful way.
(Educational Technol*) AND (Trends))
The * is called truncation - singular, plural or variant spelling
Boolean operators are:
OR - synonyms and related terms
AND where we want both of the concepts in some predominant segment of the article like the title, and abstract.
STEP 4
Final statement:
(Technology or ed tech or technology in the classroom) AND (trends or issues or developments or changes)
The parenthesis just tell the database system the order in which the search should take place in the database.
We just did a key word search in ERIC
SUBJECT SEARCHING
In some databases like ERIC all the possible keywords with synonyms and related terms are mapped to a preferred heading called SUBJECT HEADING OR in ERIC Thesaurus. .
