MEASRES 6205 - Educational Research - Joram

Saving Your ERIC and APA PsycInfo Searches/Results (Google Doc)

If you need to find empirical research - articles that report an actual experiment or study - try the following technique in the ERIC (EBSCO) database:

1. Type in your search.
      
2. Check the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals option farther down the page.
      
3. Use the "Publication Type" option at the bottom of the search page and limit your search to the option "Reports - Research".

If you need to find empirical research - articles that report an actual experiment or study - try the following technique in the APA PsycInfo database:

1. Type in your search.
      
2. Check the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals option farther down the page.
      
3. Use the "Methodology" option at the bottom of the search page and limit your search to the option "EMPIRICAL STUDY".
     
4. Check the Exclude Dissertations box.

With APA PsycInfo you can even limit to the type of study e.g. QUALITATIVE STUDY, QUANTITATIVE STUDY, LONGITUDINAL STUDY, etc.