GOOGLE AND GOOGLE SCHOLAR

SEARCHESAn inquisition into inquiry

Baseline search results

data

The inclusion of a definition, proving it is a very broad

search

(“inquiry * learning” OR “pro* based learning” OR “discovery learning”)(student-led OR student-based OR “student centred”)

Search String:

Several articles

without full text

available.The same 2nd resultOn

topic results

that are not scholar

ly

(“inquiry * learning” OR “pro* based learning” OR “discovery learning”)(student-led OR student-based OR “student centred”)(primary OR elementary) -university

Search String:A great, diverse

range of full text articles

from different countriesSeveral

of the same results as my

previous

search

This article also addressed my

second question

(“inquiry * learning” OR “pro* based learning” OR “discovery learning”)(student-led OR student-based OR “student centred”)(primary OR elementary)

Search String: A lot more results than

the last search, but

still lots focusing on

Primary Education

Despite

changing my search

the results

are very

similar to

previous

searches

(“inquiry * learning” OR “pro* based learning” OR “discovery learning”) AROUND(10)humanities (student-led OR student-based OR “student centred”)(primary OR elementary) -higher

Search String:As my search string becom

es more

complex I

receive more

scholarly

articles in

Google

This search was far too complex as many of the results were

off topic

Some extremely irrelevant results

Related

articles was

linked to

other great

result on the

same topic

Only 28 results!

(“inquiry * learning” OR “pro* based learning” OR “discovery learning”) “formative assessment”Search String:

A lot of really basic and

broad informati

on on assessm

ent

Quite a few Full text articles

available and a few

books, reflecting a

broad search

Two useful and

on topic

resources

(“inquiry based learning” OR “project based learning”) “formative assessment” AROUND (10) question*

Search String:

Several results

from the same site

A really successful

search! With lots of useful full

text articles!

On topic results

(“inquiry based learning” OR “project based learning”) “formative assessment” AROUND (10) question* -science

Search String:This

search focused

on Project Based

Learning in a lot of

the results

Removing results that

included science

decreased my results considerabl

y.

(“inquiry * learning” OR “guided inquiry” OR "discovery learning") “formative assessment” AROUND (10) question* -science -higher

Search String:I received

many results

that focused

on formativ

e assessm

ent

This complex search string

removed a lot of

results.

Only 63 results