Activity - Web
Search Practice
The main
goal of this activity is to learn how to search for information more
efficiently. This means finding relevant, reliable, and accurate information,
as fast as possible. This activity also helps you learn how to obtain and save
the APA style citations of the articles.
Open a Word Document and copy/paste this
whole page into it.
Practice 1
1-
Use Google to search for the keywords in this table (type the exact words and
symbols)
2-
Write the number of pages you find (the number of results) in the second
column. Your numbers might be different from the numbers given.
3- Explain
why the results for rows 1-2 are different from rows 3-5
4- Explain
why the results for row 1 and 2 are different.
|
Row # |
Keywords |
Results |
|
1 |
"Validity Reliability" |
359,000 |
|
2 |
"Validity and
Reliability" |
497,000 |
|
3 |
Validity Reliability |
25,900,000 |
|
4 |
Validity AND Reliability |
244,000,000 |
|
5 |
Validity OR Reliability |
252,000,000 |
Practice 2
Imagine you want to learn about internal
validity of a research design. Regarding all the tips you learned about Google
search, how will you search and what key words will you use to find the most
relevant websites?
Practice 3
Use Google to search for “Cognitive Therapy”.
Once limit your search to COM and the second time limit your domain to
EDU. Only look at the first 5 pages (first 5 results) found in each search. Use
the following table to type the URL of
the first 5 results. Explain which domain leads to more useful results. Why?
|
Search 1 (COM ) |
Search 2 (EDU) |
|
1st result= |
1st result= |
|
2nd result= |
2nd result= |
|
3rd result= |
3rd result= |
|
4th result= |
4th result= |
|
5th result= |
5th result= |
Practice 4
a- Using CSULB Library web site to do the following searches using a data
base like ERIC.
b- Search for the followings and after each
search copy and paste the search criteria (Bolean/Phrase) as shown in these
pictures. Please note that your results may look different from this picture
and that’s fine.
·
Find the list of books in Education by Lesley Farmer
·
Find the list of journal articles by Lesley Farmer
·
Find the list of journal articles with Achievement and
self-confidence in the title
·
Find the list of books with Achievement in the title
·
Find the list of journal articles (published after 2000)
with “educational technology” in their title.