TY - CHAP
T1 - Designing Effective Online Educational Literature Searches
T2 - Procedures for Content Analysis and Validation
AU - Sandieson, Robert
AU - Hourcade, Jack
AU - Sharpe, Val
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2006 by Idea Group Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - Knowing the existing research literature has become important for anyone involved with education, informed research, policy, and practice rests on an understanding of unfiltered original source material. Although there has been a proliferation of research studies which are now easily accessible through online resources, being able to find information on specific topics is proving to be a challenge even for experienced researchers. This chapter describes a procedure which first identified field-specific terminology associated with original source material. The parallel terms used in the ERIC database to code the same material was then found. The resulting parallel list of ERIC keywords was tested and validated for preciseness. The finding was that each term’s precision could be established. The general methodology developed here is presented as a way of enhancing peoples’ use of online resources.
AB - Knowing the existing research literature has become important for anyone involved with education, informed research, policy, and practice rests on an understanding of unfiltered original source material. Although there has been a proliferation of research studies which are now easily accessible through online resources, being able to find information on specific topics is proving to be a challenge even for experienced researchers. This chapter describes a procedure which first identified field-specific terminology associated with original source material. The parallel terms used in the ERIC database to code the same material was then found. The resulting parallel list of ERIC keywords was tested and validated for preciseness. The finding was that each term’s precision could be established. The general methodology developed here is presented as a way of enhancing peoples’ use of online resources.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33646357852
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-59140-732-4.ch013
DO - 10.4018/978-1-59140-732-4.ch013
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:33646357852
SN - 9781591407324
SP - 190
EP - 201
BT - Selected Styles in Web-Based Educational Research
ER -