Subject Headings for Focused Results

• Minority group

– Suni Muslims– Native Americans– Hearing impaired– Mexicans– Haitians

Precision of Using Assigned Subject Headings

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– Sight impaired– Pakistanis– Vietnamese– Congolese– Navaho– Puerto Ricans

Minority groups: Minority groups

– Chinese– Arab Americans– Seminoles– Learning disabled– Gays and lesbians– Quadriplegics

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– Navaho

• Minority groups:•

– African Americans

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– Cubans•

– Sikhs– Jews

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– Eskimos

Suggested Subjects

Abstract with Subject Headings

Narrow Results by Subjects

List of Subjects Used in Records

ERIC Thesaurus

ERIC Thesaurus: Identify Subjects

Using the ERIC Thesaurus for List of Types of Educational Tests

ERIC Field Codes

Methods of Obtaining Subject Headings

ERIC Subject Headings

• Achievement tests• Questionnaires• Rating scales• Surveys• Testing• Test bias• Test reliability• Test theory• Test validity

Subject Searching in Specialized Databases

• ERIC subject headings and other functionality• PsycINFO subject headings and other

functionality• Medline MeSH subject headings

NSU

• Action research• Appreciative inquiry• Autoethnography• Biographical research• Case study research• Discourse analysis• Ethnography • Focus groups • Generic qualitative description• Grounded theory• Interviews• Mixed methods• Narrative analysis• Naturalistic observation• Oral history• Participant observation• Participatory action research• Phenomenography• Phenomenology• Portraiture• Qualitative evaluation research• Qualitative meta-synthesis• Qualitative program evaluation

Possible Terminology for Qualitative Research

• Types of qualitative research • Analytical approach• Conversation analysis• Critical analytic practice• Discourse analytic practice• Ethnomethodology• Feminist approaches• Foucaultian framework• Narrative research

PsycINFO Thesaurus

PsycINFO Thesaurus

– MEASUREMENT – RATING-SCALES – TEST-VALIDITY – ATTITUDE MEASURES – DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW SCHEDULE – QUESTIONNAIRES – SCREENING-TESTS

Useful PsycINFO Subject Headings Dealing with Psychological Tests

– PSYCHOMETRICS – INVENTORIES – TEST-FORMS – TEST-CONSTRUCTION – PERSONALITY-

MEASURES – TEST-SCORES – TEST-RELIABILITY

ERIC Thesaurus: Identify Subjects

• Ethnography• Qualitative• Grounded-theory• Thematic-analysis• Content-analysis• Observational-methods• Constant-comparative

-method• Field-notes• Participant-observation• Narratives• Field-studies• Audio recording• Focus-groups

Other Databases and Subject Headings

• CINAHL • Medline• Qualitative

research• Nursing

methodology research

• Qualitative research

• Grounded theory

• Interviews• Observation

methods

PsycINFO

ERIC• Qualitative research• Grounded theory• Ethnography• Field studies• Focus groups• Interviews• Naturalistic observation• Participant observation

PsycINFO: Using the Methodologies Field

Locating Research in CINAHL:Publication Type

Using Clinical Queries to Limit Searches in CINAHL and Medline

High Sensitivity

Precision versus Recall

High Specificity

Precision versus Recall

Best Balance

Precision versus Recall

Searching EBSCO Databases

ERIC Search Option:Educational Level

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