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Teacher Education Resources: Sample Searches

Sample Searches

Combining Keywords & Phrases 

Use the article searches below as a basis for developing your own customized searches.

To focus on your own research questions, try adding search terms that represent any of these key ideas:

  • Population characteristic: second language, gifted, learning disabled, gender, cultural group, etc.
  • Subject area: science, mathematics, reading, etc.
  • Grade level: kindergarten, elementary, middle school, or high school
  • Possible Outcomes: student attitudes, student motivation, achievement, or rubrics.

Adjusting Results

Using the peer-review filter will limit results to scholarly, evidence-based articles.  It will also eliminate all ERIC Documents (ED#s) from the results list. You may also filter results by publication date, full text availability, source, and more.

ITI680 Self as Critical Thinker

Explore the following article searches in EBSCO's education databases. Then, try adapting them to find articles that will more closely will fit your research needs.

ITL510: Language-Literacy: Foundations

Use the following article searches as a basis for developing your own customized searches in EBSCO's education databases.

Concept Chart:

Try adding additional terms to the above searches to find articles that will more closely will fit your needs.

Keywords

Related Terms

Phonemic awareness

Phonological awareness, phonemes, phonemics

Oral language

Verbal ability, fluency, speaking

Phonics

Phonic method, reading instruction, decoding

Teaching methods

Teach, classroom techniques, strategies
Learning

Learning activities, instruction, skills, development

First grade

Grade 1, elementary education

ITL514 Language-Literacy: Assessment

Explore the following article searches in EBSCO's education databases. Then try adapting them to find articles that will more closely will fit your research needs.

ITL602 Collaboration & Co-teaching

Use the following article searches as a basis for developing your own customized searches in EBSCO's education databases.

collaborative learning or cooperative learning or group work

  • add AND research
  • add AND "best practices"
  • add AND "academic achievement"
  • add AND learning styles
  • add AND competition
  • add AND individualism

teacher collaboration or teaching teams or team teaching or co-teaching

  • add AND research
  • add AND "best practices"
  • add AND "academic achievement"
  • add AND activities
  • add AND parents

The Search Strategy Builder is a tool designed to help you create a search string using Boolean search operators. Input your search terms, click the button, and then copy and paste the results into a database search box (e.g., SmartSearch).

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The Search Strategy Builder was developed by the University of Arizona Libraries and is used under a Creative Commons License.