My first search string looked like this. As always I tick the boxes that will allow me to search through a specific date range so I don't get really old hit. I also only want full text records and where applicable peer reviewed academic articles only.
I thought I would attack this by starting narrow and then widening out the search if need be. I got 237 hits but the only term that seems to appear is ‘social science’ so I will try another plan of attack. Hmm okay I know what I did wrong, the ‘or’ applied to all the search functions not just the history or social science.
The next search where I took out the subject specific terms and just left in information inquiry learning and middle school got No hits.
Try again... this time I just tried ‘inquiry’ instead of the whole term ‘inquiry based learning’ . Returned 2 results. Neither of them are very useful.
This time, no middle school and just inquiry and history- many more hits this time. I got 98 and found one good article specific to history.
I think that by adding in my specific area I am limiting some good resources that will develop my knowledge of inquiry based learning. This time I just put in inquiry based learning but left the full text ticked and also the date range of 1990 – 2010. I got 69 hits but there are a few good articles in this bunch.
Now off to read them all and see if they can be used.
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