searching for information using boolean operators
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Searching for Information Using Boolean Operators
Sample Search
Research Question: Is multicultural education helpful?
Key concepts: Is multicultural education helpful?
advantageousvaluableeffectivehelpful
traininginstructioneducation
multilingualmulti-ethnicmulticulturalSynonymKeyword
Conduct the following searches:
# results:2 Keywords + “and” search:
51,600 multi-ethnic and education and advantageous616,000 multilingual and education and valuable
1,830,000 multicultural and education and effective# results:3 keywords + “and” search
1,650,000 multi-ethnic and education2,140,000 multilingual and education3,790,000 multicultural and education
347,000,000 helpful631,000,000 education19,900,000 multicultural
# results:Keyword search:
Conduct the following searches:
# resultsKeywords + “and not” search:1,840,000 (multicultural and education) not training
51,000 (multi-ethnic and instruction) not multilingual1,550,000 (multilingual and education) not training
# results:2 Keywords + “or” search:
1,980,000 multicultural or education or training45,000,000 education or instruction or training
77,300 multicultural or multilingual or multi-ethnic# results:3 keywords + “or” search
141,000 multi-ethnic or multilingual647,000 multi-ethnic or multicultural
1,040,000 multicultural or multilingual
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