Enter one keyword in each search box and use connectors (AND, OR, NOT) to focus your search. The word effect often appears in the title or abstract of a research study article and can be used as a keyword. Note that most databases default to AND to connect your search terms.
Examples:
Use limiters in a database to refine your search results. Limiter availability and nomenclature will vary across databases.
Examples of limiters:
Use quotation marks around phrases to specify that connected words be searched as phrases. This keeps your multi-word search term together in a search so the database will search the phrase and not the individual words.
Example:
Adding quotation marks around the search term "social emotional learning" will yield results that contain the exact phrase social emotional learning. Without the quotation marks, you will get results that include these terms separately (the database would search social AND emotional AND learning)
Gather additional search terms as you perform your research and review your search results. Make note of what terminology subject-matter experts use when they describe their research. Look at a source's record page in the database for ideas.
Examples of fields to review on a record page:
The Education Resources Information Center, or ERIC, is accessible using the publicly available site or by using the Hood Library's portal.
ERIC can be searched using natural language or by using the ERIC Thesaurus terms, the controlled vocabulary used for this database. Natural language searches may yield a higher number of search results and Thesaurus term searches may yield more precise search results.
To explore ERIC's Thesaurus, navigate to Hood's ERIC portal, then toggle from "Filters" to "Subjects" in the menu below the search boxes.
To learn more about searching ERIC using Thesaurus terms, check out this research guide or read more on the ERIC website.