1. Subject Headings for Focused Results

2. Minority group – Suni Muslims – Native Americans – Hearing impaired – Mexicans – Haitians Precision of Using Assigned Subject Headings ups – Sight impaired – Pakistanis – Vietnamese – Congolese – Navaho – Puerto Ricans Minority groups: Minority groups – Chinese – Arab Americans – Seminoles – Learning disabled – Gays and lesbians – Quadriplegics – Navaho Minority groups: – African Americans – Cubans – Sikhs – Jews – Eskimos

3. Suggested Subjects

4. Abstract with Subject Headings

5. Narrow Results by Subjects

6. List of Subjects Used in Records

7. ERIC Thesaurus

8. ERIC Thesaurus: Identify Subjects

9. Using the ERIC Thesaurus for List of Types of Educational Tests

10. ERIC Field Codes

11. Methods of Obtaining Subject Headings

12. ERIC Subject Headings Achievement tests Questionnaires Rating scales Surveys Testing Test bias Test reliability Test theory Test validity

13. Subject Searching in Specialized Databases ERIC subject headings and other functionality PsycINFO subject headings and other functionality Medline MeSH subject headings NSU

14. Action research Appreciative inquiry Autoethnography Biographical research Case study research Discourse analysis Ethnography Focus groups Generic qualitative description Grounded theory Interviews Mixed methods Narrative analysis Naturalistic observation Oral history Participant observation Participatory action research Phenomenography Phenomenology Portraiture Qualitative evaluation research Qualitative meta-synthesis Qualitative program evaluation Possible Terminology for Qualitative Research Types of qualitative research Analytical approach Conversation analysis Critical analytic practice Discourse analytic practice Ethnomethodology Feminist approaches Foucaultian framework Narrative research

15. PsycINFO Thesaurus

17. – MEASUREMENT – RATING-SCALES – TEST-VALIDITY – ATTITUDE MEASURES – DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW SCHEDULE – QUESTIONNAIRES – SCREENING-TESTS Useful PsycINFO Subject Headings Dealing with Psychological Tests – PSYCHOMETRICS – INVENTORIES – TEST-FORMS – TEST-CONSTRUCTION – PERSONALITY- MEASURES – TEST-SCORES – TEST-RELIABILITY

18. ERIC Thesaurus: Identify Subjects

19. Ethnography Qualitative Grounded-theory Thematic-analysis Content-analysis Observational-methods Constant-comparative -method Field-notes Participant-observation Narratives Field-studies Audio recording Focus-groups Other Databases and Subject Headings CINAHL Medline Qualitative research Nursing methodology research Qualitative research Grounded theory Interviews Observation methods PsycINFO ERIC Qualitative research Grounded theory Ethnography Field studies Focus groups Interviews Naturalistic observation Participant observation

20. PsycINFO: Using the Methodologies Field

21. Locating Research in CINAHL: Publication Type

22. Using Clinical Queries to Limit Searches in CINAHL and Medline

23. High Sensitivity Precision versus Recall

24. High Specificity Precision versus Recall

25. Best Balance Precision versus Recall

26. Searching EBSCO Databases

27. ERIC Search Option: Educational Level

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