CH 3: Reviewing the Literature

Question 1

What is ERIC?

Answer 1

-It is the largest digital library of educational literature in the world

Question 2

Why does ERIC have files under ED and EJ?

Answer 2

• ED designation is used for unpublished docs= reports, studies & lesson plans
• EJ is used for articles that have been published by in professional journals

Question 3

What is Education Full Text?

Answer 3

• House historic articles within the Wilson education index since 1983
• Provides many articles not found in ERIC database

Question 4

What is psychINFO?

Answer 4

-it is an online version of psychological abstracts

Question 5

What are Dissertation Abstracts?

Answer 5

-It contains bibliographic citations & abstracts for doctorial dissertations and master’s thesis

Question 6

What is Meta-analysis?

Answer 6

-It is the statistical approach to summarizing the results of many quantitative studies that have investigated the same problem