How to find information for your assignment in Education

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How to find information for your assignment in
Education

• OBE is Dead, Long Live Content

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Journal articles

• Using search techniques
• Use databases to find journal articles on a
  topic
• Where do I find databases?
• Database EBSCOhost
• SABINET SA ePublications

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Using search techniques
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What is your topic?

• What are the main ideas (keywords) of your topic?
• Think of
• Synonyms
• Alternative spellings
• Abbreviations / Acronyms
• Broader or narrower meanings of your original
  keywords

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Synonym - a word that means the same as another
word in the same language

• Student pupil
• Tear rip
• Sick ill
• Alternative name a word or expression that is
  used as another name for something
• Primary or elementary (school)
• Teacher / educator / tutor / instructor

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Alternative spelling

• Colour, flavour, honour, neighbour, rumour,
  labour, humour (British English)
• Color, flavor, honor, neighbor, rumor, labor,
  humor (American English)
• Abbreviation
• OBE Outcomes based education
• NCS National Curriculum Statement
• AD attention disorder

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Boolean operators
AND
Articles will contain Education and Reform
Articles will contain either Elementary or Primary
OR
NOT
Articles will contain Virus but not computer
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Example
Topic Is Ritalin an effective treatment for boys
with ADHD ?
Ritalin Boys ADHD
Methylphenidate hydrochloride Males Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ADD Hyperactivity Hyperkinesia in children
Children Young men Behavior disorders in children Behaviour disorders in children
AND
AND
OR
OR
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Phrase searching
Search for particular words in a particular order
South Africa classroom management curriculu
m integration Phrases are often enclosed in
quotation marks
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• Most databases will use the following search
  techniques for phrase searching
• project management
• curriculum implementation
• South Africa

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Truncation

• The addition of a symbol at the end of a word
• so the computer will look for all
  variations of
• that word
• Broadens your search
• Teach
• Teachable
• Teacher
• Teachers
• Teaching
• Different databases, different symbols
• ?

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Online databases

• A database - searchable,
• electronic collection of either
• full text documents (including
• journal articles) or citations
• and abstracts

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Citation

• A reference to a published or unpublished source
  for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of
  the work of others to the topic of discussion
• Abstract
• A statement summarising the important points of a
  text

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Multidisciplinary databases

• Academic Search Complete
• E-Journals
• MasterFILE Premier
• Subject specific databases (Education)
• ERIC
• Teacher Reference Center

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If your research involves

• Psychology (behavioural science and mental
  health) -
• use PsycINFO
• Languages- Communication Mass Media Complete
• You can search across several databases
  simultaneously!

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Databases for searching in Education
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Keywords OBE Or Outcomes based
education And South Africa
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• Click Full text to access only full text journal
  articles
• Click Scholarly Journals
• Limit the dates to the last 10 years
• Press Search

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382 Results used OR to broaden our search
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Keywords OBE And Outcomes based
education And South Africa
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17 Results used AND to narrow our search
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Click on the article title to see a full citation
Abstract (or synopsis) provides an
easy-to-understand summary of the entire article
points
Subjects of an article
PDF link full text
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Citation page link to PDF, Print, Email, Save
and Cite To go back use Result List button
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• Introduction
• The South African Situation
• The Vision of OBE

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Move slider to change dates and click on
Update to narrow your search by date 13
results
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Working with folders
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SABINET ONLINE/ SA e-Publications
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Search techniques for SABINET

• Phrase searching
• project w management (not )
• Truncation
• Teach? (not )

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Home page of SA ePublications
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Click on the title of the article to read an
abstract
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Back to the Results list
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