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CI 5327: Principles and Practices in Elementary Education: Search Strategies

Search Tips

Search by keywords/small phrases and use Boolean searching.

AND: "african american students" AND "achievement gap"

OR:  "project based learning" OR "project method in teaching" 

Use "quotation marks" to search for whole phrases.   

Use the limiting features like date and peer-reviewed journals.   

Consider truncation. The symbol used is usually *

disab* will retrieve: disableddisabilitiesdisability, etc.   

Check Subject terms to see if there are any synonym terms to consider.

Searching for Full Text

If you come across a citation to an article and you'd like to track down its full text, follow the steps below:



Wesley-Nero, S., & Davis, D. (2024). Integrated Professional Learning: Boundary-spanning graduate leadership education with principals and district leaders. Journal of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, 8, 1–24.

| Google Scholar


Google Scholar can be a useful tool when collecting research information. Settings can be updated to display:

Library Links - FindIt@Txstate
Bibliography Manager - EndNote (refers to Desktop EndNote)

LibKey Nomad | CMU LibrariesLibKey Nomad

This is a browser extension - if you find an article on the web, it will bring you to the full-text through TXST Libraries. This tool can also help with alerting you to journals considered "Problematic" (potentially predatory).