EDUC 290B: Study of Sport in Education

• Use synonyms -- there are many ways to express a concept (teenager or teenagers or adolescent)
• Use truncation to get different forms of the word, for example teenage* will retrieve teenagers, teenager, teenaged, etc.
• Use quotation marks when you want an "exact phrase"

Another really powerful tool is to use the special features and the "controlled vocabulary" of the database. ERIC has a Thesaurus, which can help you identify the exact term used to describe a concept. It also has advanced search fields such as:

• Education Level -- do you want high school? College? Kindergarten?
• Publication Type -- i.e.,  Tests/Questionnaires, dissertations, Numerical/Quantitative Data, Teacher Classroom Guides.