This week I
honed in more on how to narrow down my searches. One of the difficulties I came
across when looking for a peer reviewed article was that I was getting an
overwhelming number of results. Something I always checked when researching was
the “Search ALL keywords” or “Search ANY keywords” box. When doing this assignment,
I learned about the “Boolean/Phrase” option and that ultimately narrowed down
my results to nine articles, compared to the 5,000 before that. The
Boolean/Phrase option refers to a
system of logical thought developed by the English mathematician and computer
pioneer, George Boole. In Boolean searching, an "and" between two
words or other values means you are searching for articles containing both of
the keywords you put, not just one of them. An "or" between two words
means you are searching for articles containing either of the words.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
LBSU 302: Week 4 Assignment 2 - Blog Post
With the
article that I found in this week’s assignment, I came to learn more about the
families’ role in assessment and early identification of children with special
needs. Their role is important because it can be helpful when implementing an
individual plan on developing a child’s personal growth. A major key is that transitions
between home and school need to be efficient. When parents and teachers are on
the same page everything runs smoother, because essentially they both have the
child’s best interests in mind and the same goals. With continued search I hope
to find out more in depth information about Head Start programs specifically, because
it has come up a lot throughout my research.
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Megan Tolentino,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog and following your research path. After reading your blog posts it seems as if you are becoming more comfortable with using the different techniques that we have learned through out the weeks. We have focused on similar techniques, such as the advanced search, learning how to use the right type of keywords and also narrowing down the results as much as possible. I agree that it can become a bit overwhelming when you end up with thousands of results.
We do not have the same topic or subject when it comes to our research questions, but they both contain very similar aspects. We are both researching the most efficient way to help, children with special needs in your case, and mentally ill people in my case. Interventions are used with both of these fields. One of the things that I want to learn more about is the importance in support from family members, which seems to be a very crucial factor in both of our research questions, and issues. The one thing that stood out to me the most was that you wrote “A major key is that transitions between home and school need to be efficient.” and that has been a huge factor in my research when it comes to mentally ill patients transitioning from being inpatients to living in society. It was interesting to me how I could compare my research with yours, even though it is not about the same thing.
My question would be: What exactly is your research question? I could not find it in your blog.
Keep up the good work,
Lea Tapper (http://atapperlbsu.blogspot.com)
Hello Megan,
ReplyDeleteI truly enjoyed reading this post and your topic truly interests me and will also be very helpful for me in my future career aspiration as a teacher. I also believe it is very important for both parents and teacher’s to be on the same page which plays a very important part on the students learning. I was also very over whelmed at first when looking for a peer review article. I learned after trial and error how crucial the key words are when conducting these searches. This post was very helpful especially in reading about information you found about your topic. What is your specific research question? Has it changed at all during the past few weeks? Mine certainly has, I hope you have a wonderful week I look forward to reading more of your post.
Sincerely your classmate,
Sophia Simoni