ProQuest is another database I have found to be very useful over the years. With the option of performing an advanced search, I can really narrow down what it is that I am looking for. On the right hand side I can narrow my search further by clicking on 'scholarly journals'. I was able to reduce my results by scanning through articles to determine which ones did not exemplify the form of inquiry based learning that I was interested in and easily eliminated any fact-finding inquiry.
In ProQuest, if I search inquiry-based learning AND primary science, the database would search for 'inquiry-based' as one word and 'learning' as separate. It would not necessarily search for 'inquiry-based learning'. This is the same way that Google works. This means that what it is really searching is 'inquiry-based' AND 'learning' AND 'primary' AND 'science'. For this reason, I need to use 'inquiry-based learning' and 'primary science' in quotes so it searches each as a whole phrase. I experimented with a variety of searches to clearly understand how the use of quotations and Boolean terms altered the results that were returned. I also narrowed my searches by clicking the boxes that specified 'full text', 'peer reviewed', 'date range 3 years' and 'scholarly journals'.
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