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2 | Your name | Research topic or question. | List a few search terms, consider synonyms, and if needed, broader terms, and narrower terms. | Go to Academic Search Complete (EBSCO). Do a basic search, using just one or two keywords. List your search string. How many results do you get? | Make your search more precise, by connecting your search terms using AND. List your search string. How many results do you get? | Lets expand our results by adding related terms or synonyms to your keywords and put OR in-between them (example: impact OR effect OR influence OR outcome OR results) List your search strategy. How many results do you get? | Try using truncation (*) or phrase searching (" ") in your search strategy. List your modified search. How many results do you get? | Try an additional search technique (a filter/limiter, field searching). List your modify search. How many results do you get? | List another EBSCO database that you select from the Choose Databases link options. How many results ? | List a relevant subject term from one of your search results. | Choose a relevant article for your topic. Copy and paste the citation for the article in the format that your professor prefers. | Tell me one thing you learned today in the workshop that you think you'll use in the future. | Did you encounter any problems or issues when finding sources for your topic? Is there something that is still confusing to you? You can also email us at reference@hpu.edu. | Feedback from Librarian | |||||||||||
3 | Maggie Woggon | How does underpaying teachers affect student learning outcomes? | Teacher Shortages, Teacher Salary issue, student underperformance. | Teacher shortage in United States, 340 results | Teacher shortage in Unites States AND student performance, 3 results | Teacher shortage in United States AND student performance OR student learning outcomes OR teacher salary issue, 91 results | Teacher shortage in United States AND student performance OR student learning outcomes OR "teacher salary" issue OR teacher underpa*, 58 results | Teacher shortage in United States AND student performance OR student learning outcomes OR "teacher salary" issue OR teacher underpa*, limit to academic journals, 14 results | JSTOR, 677 results | Teacher salary | Hopkins, C. L. (2023). Collaboration is Key to Retaining Teachers and Supporting Students with Significant Support Needs. Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 90(1), 23–27. | I think I will use the search tools that we learned when trying to find relevant articles. | The only struggle I encountered was that there does not seem to be many articles showing the correlation between teacher underpaying and student learning outcomes. | Aloha Maggie, your searches look great my only suggestion is if you want more articles with teacher salaries and student learning here are some potential terms to consider. ( teacher salary OR teacher pay OR teacher wages ) AND ( student achievement OR learning outcomes ) There is also the concept Teacher performance pay.. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775710001731 | |||||||||||
4 | Trinity Rakowski | How does Synesthesia affect creativity in the world around us | Synesthesia, Art, Music, Creativity, Senses | Synesthesia AND Music or Art:1108059 results | Synesthesia AND music AND art AND Creativity: 6 results | Synesthesia or Music or art or creativity : 1,820,941 results | Synesthesia AND Music* AND art* AND creat*: 34 results | Synesthesia AND music* AND art* NOT metaphors: 126 results | PhycNet: 71,067 results | Senses | Abou-Khalil, R., & Acosta, L. M. Y. (2023). A case report of acquired synesthesia and heightened creativity in a musician after traumatic brain injury. Neurocase, 29(1), 18–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2023.2208271 | I will use EBSCO as a method of finding quality sources | |||||||||||||
5 | Jonathan Sorto | How is corruption involved in soccer? | Soccer, Corruption , Match-fixing , Betting | Soccer AND Corruption : 482 results | Soccer AND corruption AND match fixing : 20 results | Match Fixing | How to search for scholarly articles on my topic | ||||||||||||||||||
6 | Ethan Seo-Sandoval | I have no clue on what I am looking for now | Assumptions, Naive Realism. Confirmation bias, cognitive processes | Assumptions AND confirmation bias - 26 results | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Isabelle Oliveira | Is the death penalty an effective crime deterrent? | Capital Punishment, Crime Rates, Racial Bias | Capital Punishment; 10,841 results | Capital Punishment AND Crime Deterrence: 84 results | Capital Punishment AND Crime Deterrence AND Impact OR Effect OR Influence; 34 results | "Capital Punishment" AND Crime Deterrence* AND Impact OR Effect: 21 results | "Capital Punishment" AND Crime Deterrence* AND Impacts or Effects AND Wrongful Convictions; No results were found | Proper conjunction to use to narrow down my research results. | The more terms I added, no results were available | Aloha Isabel ... Yes if your search is giving you plenty of results there is no need to add more ORs to your query but the activity was intended so you can see what happens to your searchers. so "Capital Punishment" AND ( impacts or effects or consequences ) AND ( Deterrence OR Crime reduction ) would work well .If you want to look into the wrongful convictions you can susbtitte the deterrance such as "Capital Punishment" AND ( wrongful convictions or false convictions or actual innocence ) | ||||||||||||||
8 | Demone Hall | How do geograohy,history,culture, political systems and economic stystems shape nation-states and their interactions with the world? | nation-state interaction 87,518 | nation-state interaction and political systems | economic systems or culture or history or geography | 145 results | 147 rsults | political systems | References | how to refine searches to better access information. | |||||||||||||||
9 | Ka'ali Aviles | What does peace mean through all aspects of the world? | Tranquility, clamness, order, harmony, happy, quiet, composure, ease, comfort, joy, contentment, secure | Peace, Tranquility and Harmony - 5 results | Happy, Hatmony, and peace 375,597 results | "How to create peace", The psychology behind happiness", and " What is peace" - 96 results | "What is peace", or "What is the psychology behind peace", not "Hatred within people" | Jstor - 756,910 results | Violence and peace | Mahmoud, Y., & Makoond, A. (2018). Sustaining Peace: What Does It Mean in Practice? In Y. MAHMOUD, L. CONNOLLY, & D. MECHOULAN (Eds.), Sustaining Peace in Practice: Building on What Works (pp. 7–10). International Peace Institute. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep17507.5 | How to properly narrow down and look for scholarly articles ,books, journals, ect | What exact terms to looks for | |||||||||||||
10 | Esmee Cavender | To what extent have human influences impacted the endangerment of mountain gorillas? | mountain gorilla endangerment, climate change, pollution, disease, human impact | mountain gorilla endangerment; 59 results | mountain gorilla and human impact; 4 results | mountain gorilla and endangered and pollution or disease; 13 results | "mountain gorilla" and endangered and pollution or disease or "climate change" or "global warming"; 6 results | "mountain gorilla" and endangered and pollution or disease or "climate change" or "global warming" not parasites; 4 results | 489 results | conservation | Muylaert, R. L., Davidson, B., Ngabirano, A., Kalema-Zikusoka, G., MacGregor, H., Lloyd-Smith, J. O., Fayaz, A., Knox, M. A., & Hayman, D. T. S. (2021). Community health and human-animal contacts on the edges of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. PLoS ONE, 16(11), 1–29. https://doi-org.hpu.idm.oclc.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254467 | I learned how to use boolean phrases to broaden and narrow my search. | |||||||||||||
11 | Alfredo David | how has huntting sharks affected people and environments | environmental impact, social impact, | Shark finning: 88 results | Shark finning and environmental impact: 3 results | Shark finning environmental or social impact: 20 results | "Shark Fin*" and "environmental impact" or "Social Impact" : 20 results | "Shark Fin*" and "environmetal impact" or "Socal Impact | supply chain and conservation of sharks | Martins, A. P. B., Feitosa, L. M., Lessa, R. P., Almeida, Z. S., Heupel, M., Silva, W. M., Tchaicka, L., & Nunes, J. L. S. (2018). Analysis of the supply chain and conservation status of sharks (Elasmobranchii: Superorder Selachimorpha) based on fisher knowledge. PLoS ONE, 13(3), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193969 | II learned how to use the truncation to serch multiple words that are spelled similerly without spelling everything out | ||||||||||||||
12 | Natalie Martinz | Why Do Young Adults Of This Society Still Find Themselves Watching Kids Shows? | young adults, kids shows | kids shows 1,046 results | young adults, kids shows 8 results | young adults, | Could not find anything related to my topic | Aloha Natalie, as we discussed on Thursday maybe opening it up to other genre like cartoons or children literature. Academic Search Complete and other databses from EBSCO do use the term "CHILDREN'S television programs" as a label that include cartoons so that is another way of searching broader. In the term of viewership maybe terms like fan OR supporter OR adult viewer* OR adult spectator https://hpu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&db=bth&db=f6h&db=pbh&db=agr&db=awh&db=brb&db=b6h&db=ccm&db=cph&db=nlebk&db=ent&db=eih&db=eric&db=hev&db=8gh&db=hxh&db=hch&db=hlh&db=lgh&db=lxh&db=lkh&db=msn&db=cmedm&db=mth&db=kah&db=mzh&db=n5h&db=nsm&db=tfh&db=bwh&db=rlh&db=b9h&db=sur&db=trh&db=tth&db=voh&db=v1h&bquery=DE+%26quot%3bCHILDREN%26%2339%3bS+television+programs%26quot%3b+AND+(+fan+OR+supporter+OR+viewer+OR+spectator+)+AND+adult*&type=1&searchMode=Standard&site=ehost-live&scope=site | |||||||||||||||||
13 | Celin | Why is it that teenagers blame themselves and internal factors for negative events in their lives but as they age people blame external factors | Teenagers, self-blame, internal factors, external factors, negative events, aging, psychological development, attribution theory | can't find anything related to my topic, it is typically difficult in psychology since my topics are very specific. | Aloha Celin, It is great that you identified the concept attribution theory from that you can extrapalate to attribution of success and failure and even blame attribution. You can also expand the term juvenile with youth or adocescent or teenager. Here is an example search ( attribution theory or attribution of success and failure or blame attribution ) AND AB ( juvenile or youth or adolescent or teenagers ) AND ( blame or blaming or responsibility ) You should get resuls in Academic Search Complete but also recommend search in mEdline and Psychology and Behaviroal Science Collection from EBSCO https://hpu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&db=cmedm&db=pbh&bquery=(+attribution+theory+or+attribution+of+success+and+failure+or+blame+attribution+)+AND+AB+(+juvenile+or+youth+or+adolescent+or+teenagers+)+AND+(+blame+or+blaming+or+responsibility+)&type=1&searchMode=Standard&site=ehost-live&scope=site | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Jeremy Kahle | why is student athlete mental heath still a growing issue? | Student athlete, mental health, depression, addiction, athlete health, mental abuse, over trained, stress, anioxety | Student athlete mental health, 9 articles | theropy/ depression 6 | put or for depression and anxiety and 59k showed up | 4 | 7 | apa phsyc 14 | mental health/ athlete | https://hpu.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/factors-affecting-mental-health-among-student/docview/1627152697/se-2?accountid=2514 | How to further search into scholarly data bases | no | ||||||||||||
15 | Samantha Malafronte | How to increase the use of mental health resources and decrease mental health problems in college student athletes? | mental health, mental disorders, mental illness, college student athletes, profession athletes, struggles, stigma. challenges | mental health 581,975 | mental health and college student athletes and stigma 8 | Mental health or mental illness or mental disorder and college student athletes or professional athletes and struggles or stigma or challenges. 32 | added " " around mental health 31 | last three years 21 | 1,081 apa psycNET | mental health and stigma | https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=15&sid=dfb34484-a0c7-469b-a5a0-23bd7189515e%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=160350547&db=a9h | How to use expand my searches | |||||||||||||
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17 | Maddox Marcoux | How do fishing practices contribute to pollution and damage in oceanic ecosystems? | Fishing, Boats, Commercial fishing, Plastics, macroplastic, microplastic, ghost nets, garbage dumping, trolling, bycatches. | Fishing and Pollution 3,546 results | commercial fishing and pollution and plastic 38 results | commercial fishing and pollution or plastic 539 results | Commercial fish* and pollution or plastic and "ghost net*" 1 result | AB abstract 328 results | Academic Onefile (GALE) 20 results | Fishing Nets | The * sign being able to fill in term endings | the citation format is incosistent with some sources | Great observation Maddox, most citation tools make mistake that include citation tools embedded in Microsoft so alway double check the citation with a good template. | ||||||||||||
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