RESEARCH
EDUCATION
IN
Sarah Cohn
Reference & Instruction Librarian
The City College of New York, CUNY
January 21, 2023
AGENDA
How do you start your research?
Evaluating information
Keywords & search strategies
Suggested resources
Getting help
TODAY'S
How do you start your research?
When you start a research paper or project, where is your first stop for information?
What was the last thing you looked up on Google for a class?
How did you know your search results were “good” and credible?
What makes a source or piece of information "good enough" to use in a paper for class?
INFORMATION
EVALUATING
TERMS
SEARCH
AKA KEYWORDS
what is your main topic?
what are the specifics?
what are different ways to describe your ideas?
How does gender impact the achievement gap in New York City?
Gender
- Girls
- Boys
- Non binary
- Transgender
Achievement Gap
- Academic performance
- Students
- Teachers
Impact
- Grades
- Graduation rates
- Retention
- Punishment
New York City
- United States
- Urban
Other Related Ideas
- School policy
- Private school
- Public school
STRATEGIES
SEARCH
Full Sentence Searches
How does gender impact the achievement gap in New York City?
use AND to connect terms
achievement gap AND new york AND gender
disparity AND academic performance AND gender AND new york
combining different terms = different results
RESOURCES
SUGGESTED
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ERIC
- Education Resources Information Center, sponsored by the US Department of Education.
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Google Scholar
- Search for scholarly literature. You will not always be able to access the full text of articles.
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Google Books
- Full-text digitized books
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HathiTrust
- A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Open Web Resources
Use your public library card to find books and access databases, either from home or from a library location.
Public Library Resources
- New York Public Library
- Brooklyn Public Library
- Queens Public Library
SOURCES
CITING YOUR
what is the purpose of citation?
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Engage in scholarly conversation
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Relate your own ideas and analysis to existing scholarship
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Give credit to authors whose ideas you use
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Allow your reader to find the original article
HELP
GETTING
Sarah Cohn
Reference & Instruction Librarian
scohn@ccny.cuny.edu
LO Research in Education 2023
By Sarah Cohn
LO Research in Education 2023
LO January 2021
