Information Skills for Education Students by Richardson Lloyd;McBryde-Wilding Heather;

Author:Richardson, Lloyd;McBryde-Wilding, Heather;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited

Databases often offer the choice to sort your results, including sorting by date, author or source (everything is grouped according to the publication they originate from), which can be a useful way to start if you have a number of results to review.

This is quite an exhaustive list and is used to demonstrate that there are many options available for you to enable intelligent searching, and to save you time wading through unhelpful results.

Evaluation of results

Whenever you do a search using an online resource such as a database or internet search engine it is important that you assess the effectiveness of your search results, in order to decide how you are going to progress next. Decide if the results of the search are what you expected and if they meet your needs. Is there information missing that you expected to retrieve, or is there information that you were not expecting to find and now want to exclude? You may wish to modify your search based on the outcome of this process.

What problems have you encountered with your results, and what action can you take? If you have too many results you could:

narrow your search – add more keywords;

be more specific e.g. try key stage one, instead of primary education;

use phrase searches e.g. ‘curriculum planning’;

add limits – document type, date, full text only.

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