PSY 410: Development & Education of Immigrant Children & Youth: Home
Before You Search
Identify your information need
Peer-reviewed research studies for an annotated bibliography on your topic.
Consider your topic/research question and identify the key components.
How do immigrant youth cope with stress in the school environment?
- Concept 1: Stress, coping, resilience
- Concept 2: School, educational environment
- Population: Immigrant youth, immigrant children, immigrant adolescents
Narrow, Expand, or Define Terms as Needed
As you search, you'll discover additional or better terms to revise your search.
Librarian
Deciding Where to Search
Who cares?
When you're ready to search for articles, the next thing to consider is "Who cares?" Research literature databases are often organized around disciplines or research areas. For this course, most all topics will be covered in either the psychology or education databases.
| Research Topic | Best Article Databases | Other Suggested Database |
|---|---|---|
| Promoting academic development of immigrant youth | ERIC (Education) or Education Research Complete | PsycINFO (Psychology) |
| Racial discrimination and coping mechanisms | PsycINFO (Psychology) | |
| Acculturative stress and academic success | PsycINFO (Psychology) | ERIC (Education) or Education Research Complete |
Scope and Functionality Differences
ERIC and Education Research Complete: both disciplinary databases of education research literature. They search a defined set of resources, such as
- Peer reviewed journals in the field of education
- Curriculum materials
Functionality:
- Searches keyword in title, abstract, and other record fields
- Can use subject headings to search
- Publication date limit
- Results ranked by publication date (newest first)
PsycINFO searches a defined set of resources, all focused in the field of psychology
- almost 2500 journals (99% peer reviewed)
- book chapters
- dissertations
Functionality:
- Searches keyword in title, abstract, and other record fields
- Can use subject headings to search
- Publication date limit
- Methods, age group limits available
- Results ranked by publication date (newest first)
Google Scholar searches across resources from all disciplines/subject areas:
- journals publisher websites
- professional association websites
- university websites
- Google Books
Functionality:
- Searches the full text of the article for keywords
- No subject headings
- Publication date limit
- No limits for research methodology, study population age group
- Results ranked by combination of times cited and Google algorithm