This document summarizes a seminar on trends in urban elementary education. It outlines the learning outcomes of articulating a research question, searching subject databases using key concepts and Boolean operators, determining relevance, integrating new information, citing sources, and using EndNote. It also provides guidance on writing a literature review, including choosing a structure, extracting main points, summarizing sources, and showing relationships between sources. Finally, it demonstrates conducting a literature search using concepts, Boolean operators, truncation, evaluating results, and assessing if the search should be modified.

1. Elementary Education
Seminar: Trends in Urban
Elementary Education
Lettycia Terrones
California State University Fullerton
Education Librarian Candidate

2. Learning Outcomes:
• Articulate a research question
• Choose key concepts or terms appropriate to search
subject databases and modify the search strategy as
necessary
• Determine if the information is relevant for the
assignment
• Integrate new information with previous information
to create knowledge appropriate to the research
question
• Cite scholarly articles using correct APA Style
• Export articles into EndNote bibliographic manager

3. What is the Literature Review?
Your Feedback on the YouTube tutorials
http://goo.gl/7gP85

4. What is the Literature Review?
Don’t argue a position nor state your opinion.
Do narrow your topic by forming a question.
Do choose an structure to organize your writing.
Do extract the main points from your source.
Do summarize the main points.
Do show the relationship between different
sources.
Taylor, D. (2010). Writing the literature review: Step-by-step tutorial for graduate students. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoYpyY9n9YQ

5. Literature Review Frames
• Chronological frame
• Advancements/Breakthroughs frame
• Major questions frame
• Geographical frame
Taylor, D. (2010). Writing the literature review: Step-by-step tutorial for graduate students. Retrieved from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoYpyY9n9YQ

7. technology use21st Century
literacy/skillsWeb 2.0
mobile devices
computer
software
e-books
literac*
educational
technology
multimodal
teaching
instruction*
curriculum
classroom

8. Boolean Connectors
AND is a Boolean connector word used to
combine two concepts.
technology
elementary
school
AND narrows down your search because your results will
contain articles that have both concepts together,
not just one.

9. Let’s Try It!
Pollak Library http://www.library.fullerton.edu

10. Peer Reviewed: Professors often ask you to use scholarly
(also called "peer-reviewed") articles. Peer-reviewed means the articles are
academic and have been refereed by experts in the article’s field of study.
Boolean Search
& key concepts
Peer Reviewed
articles
Do we have the
article?

11. Sample Search
Boolean Search
OR + AND
Truncation *
EDUCAT*
Educat-ion
Educat-e
Educat-or
Educat-ing

12. Sample Search
This Boolean search
will look for articles
containing all 3
terms.
Your results will
depend on which
terms you enter.
Make a list of terms
that describe the
concepts in your
research question.
You can use different
word combinations
to see which words
give you better hits!

13. Sample Article
ToolsJournal, Date, Volume, Pages
Title
Author(s)
Subject Terms
Do we have the
article?
Is there a summary of the article? (Tip: Look for the Abstract.) If yes, read the abstract and write
down information that can be useful in answering the research question.
Abstract

14. Evaluate Results
Examine the first page of results.
Do any articles “fit” or relate to your topic?
Identify keywords or concepts from these articles to further
narrow your search.
Try different searches and compare.
Think about your question. Does it need revision?
Where does the article fit in your literature review frame?

15. Assessment
Take the quiz! Give your feedback!
Go to http://goo.gl/9YKAM