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Search Preparation
Databases for
Finding Newspaper, Magazine & Journal Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
Web Links (related articles and web pages)
How to Evaluate Web Pages
Evaluating Web Pages on
“Deliberative Practice”
Before searching for articles on a topic, you should prepare for your search by:
- developing a clear, specific research topic or research question, and
- dividing the research topic in "concepts" (different subtopics or elements)
For example,
a specific research question might be:
What is the impact of social or emotional issues on the success of geniuses?
This
research question can be divided into two or three "concepts":
1.
genius
2. social
3. success
For each concept, related search terms should be used.
Place “OR” between each search term for the same concept.
1.
genius OR gifted OR high IQ OR prodigy
2. social OR emotional OR affective OR personality
3. success OR achievement
For more help on how to do search preparation, see Skyline Library's Planning a Search Page.
Databases for Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
(What is the
difference between popular magazines and academic journals?)
EbscoHost databases - on campus or off-campus
w/ library card
Articles
from academic journals, magazines, newspapers & other published sources in
all subject areas.
Gale
PowerSearch databases - on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articles
from academic journals, popular magazines and newspapers; excellent
set of general periodical databases.
- From the initial “Basic Search” page, click on "Advanced Search" on the navigation bar near the top of the page.
- In the first search box, type the search word(s) for one concept related to your topic. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept. Example: genius OR gifted OR high IQ OR prodigy
- In the second box, type the search word(s) for another concept related to your topic. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept. Example: social OR emotional OR affective OR personality
- If you have a third concept, type the search word(s) for that concept in the third box. Type an OR between synonymous words for the same concept. Example: success OR achievement
- Click the SEARCH button
- When search results are first displayed,
only magazine articles are
shown, if available for your search.
Click on: “Academic Journals” tab to display journal articles; "News" tab to display news articles; "Books" tab to display reference book articles.
- Click on an article title to view the
full article
- After selecting articles, you can e-mail the articles to yourself by clicking on the EMAIL button in the “Tools” box at the top right of every article.
- Enter your e-mail address in the Mail to: box
- To include a citation in the most recent
MLA format with the e-mailed article, scroll down to Bibliographic citation format
: and click on the button for MLA
7th Edition format
- Click the SEND button
JSTOR - Scholarly
journals archives - on campus or off-campus w/ library
card
Back
issues of important academic journals, including many
historical journals (no current issues) going back to 1838. Best for in-depth academic journal articles
on all historical topics except recent history and articles published within
the last 3 – 5 years
Google
Scholar
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Google’s academic search engine accesses a wide range of academic articles, theses,
books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional
societies, online repositories, and universities.
Google search statements:
· Since Google only provides a single search box (instead
of multiple search boxes), use parentheses around search terms for each
concept, and
· place ANDs between each concept, e.g.
(genius OR gifted OR “high IQ” OR prodigy) AND (social OR emotional OR
affective OR personality) AND (success OR achievement)
· put quotes (“ “) around search phrases, i.e. any search terms with more
than one word (such as “high IQ” in the example above)
The majority of sources retrieved by Google Scholar
are usually abstracts
(summaries) of articles, which do not provide the full-text of the article (or
a significant charge is required for the full article). In many cases, you may
be able to retrieve the full-text of these articles by using the Skyline
College Library Article Delivery Service.
The PLS Online Catalog is the online
catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula
Library System.
- Type in search word(s) for your topic in
the first search box and click the Submit button.
- The search results will show books and
other materials in all libraries in the PLS system.
- To Limit your results to books at Skyline College Library, scroll
down to Limit to: Location:
pull-down menu below the search boxes, scroll down in the Location: pull-down menu, select
Web
Links (related articles and web pages)
Chapt.
1 Matthew Effect /
Relative Age Effect
“Unequal Competition as an Impediment
to Personal Development: A Review of the Relative Age Effect in Sport” http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/RelativeAgeEffectSportsMusch2001.pdf
“The Boys of Late Summer: Why do so many pro baseball players have August
birthdays?” Greg Spira Slate.com
http://www.slate.com/id/2188866/
“Birth
date and sporting success” Nature;
Apr 14, 1994; ProQuest Psychology Journals database
(PLS library card required)
Chapt. 2 The
10,000-hour rule / Deliberate Practice
“BSD
Unix: Power to the people, from the code: How Berkeley hackers built the Net's most fabled free
operating system on the ashes of the '60s -- and then lost the lead to
Linux.” By Andrew Leonard http://dir.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html
Role
of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance
Creativity and
Knowledge: A Challenge to Theories
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/2004/materials/Necka/creativity_and_knowledge.pdf
Evaluating webpages on Deliberate Practice:
2. “Deliberate
Practice – Where Self-reflection, Work Ethic and Ambition Meet”
http://www.openeducation.net/2008/11/02/deliberate-practice-%E2%80%93-where-self-reflection-work-ethic-and-ambition-meet/
3. “What
it takes to be great”
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391794/
4 Deliberate
Practice – Pt. 1: Knowing exactly what you want
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/communication-central/201007/deliberate-practice-pt-1-knowing-exactly-what-you-want
- “The
roles of talent, physical precocity and practice in the development of
soccer expertise”
http://find.galegroup.com/gps/infomark.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&docType=IAC&type=retrieve&tabID=T002&prodId=IPS&docId=A65858476&userGroupName=plan_skyline&version=1.0&searchType=BasicSearchForm&source=gale&infoPage=infoMarkPage
(What is the
difference between popular magazines and academic journals?)
Chapts 3 & 4:
Geniuses
Lempert, R. O., Chambers, D. L.
and Adams, T. K. (2000), “
http://www.diversity.umich.edu/research/RiverRunsThroughLawSchool.pdf
Limits of IQ: Lewis Terman & J. Robert Oppenheimer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Terman
In
Defense of IQ Testing: Lewis M. Terman Replies to
Critics: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4960
Debunking
Intelligence Experts: Walter Lippmann Speaks Out: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5172
“The Vanishing Genius: Lewis Terman and the Stanford Study”
Gretchen Kreuter History
of Education Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1962), pp. 6-18
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/367332.pdf?acceptTC=true
Chapt. 5 Era
of birth / Demographic trough / Optimum Time to Be Born
Birth
and fortune: the impact of numbers on personal welfare By Richard A. Easterlin (Google Books)
“Demographic
trough babies” My Narrative Banter
(blog)
http://mynarrativebanter.blogspot.com/2009/03/demographic-trough-babies.html
“The Rise and Fall of the WASP and Jewish Law Firms” 60 Stan. L. Rev. 1803
http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/system/files/articles/Wald.pdf
Chapt. 6
“Social
Disorganization and Reorganization in Harlan County, Kentucky.” Paul Frederick Cressey.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2086887
“Five
Feuds: An Analysis of Homicides in Eastern Kentucky
in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Keith F. Otterbein.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/683675
"Homicide and a Regional Culture of Violence."
American Sociological Review
36:412-27. Hackney, Sheldon. 1969 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2780411
"’When You Call Me That, Smile!’ How Norms for Politeness,
Interaction. Styles, and Aggression Work Together in Southern Culture” http://www.jstor.org/stable/2695863
Chapt. 7 Ethnic Theory
of Plane Crashes
NTSB.
Review of flight crew-involved, major accidents of
http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/safety-studies/SS94-01.pdf
NTSB
Aircraft accident report. Avianca 052 crash http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR91-04.pdf
Cultural
diversity and crew communication
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~fischer/AIAA99.pdf
Culture in the Cockpit: Do Hofstede’s
Dimensions Replicate?
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/jandt6estudy/study/chapters/07/Merritt.pdf
Intercultural
Communication in Cognitive Values
http://maincc.hufs.ac.kr/~lri/contents/lal/09-06.pdf
Chapt. 8 Rice paddies / Math tests
"If
Man Works Hard the Land Will Not Be Lazy": Entrepreneurial Values in North
Chinese Peasant Proverbs - R. David Arkush http://www.jstor.org/stable/188943
Predictors of national differences in mathematics and science achievement of
eighth grade students
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cresp/pdfs/CRESP%20RR%202002-TIMSS2.pdf
Trends in International
Mathematics and Science Study
http://nces.ed.gov/timss/
Chapt. 9 KIPP /
summer school
“What It Takes to Make a Student.” Paul Tough. New York Times Magazine November
26, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/magazine/26tough.html
“The Case for
More School Days.” Michael Barrett. The
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/educatio/barr2f.htm
“Schools,
Achievement, and Inequality: A Seasonal Perspective” Karl L. Alexander, Doris
R. Entwisle & Linda S. Olson. Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v23 n2 p171-91 Sum 2001. Abstract/first page: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3594128 For full-text, use Article Delivery Service.
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