Welcome! This guide is designed to make it easier for you to find and use library resources most commonly used by those doing Education-related research in Bethel's Library. Use the tabs on the left to find help with various types of resources.  

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You've got your research question; now it's time for effective searching. Try these tips:

• Brainstorm a variety of keywords (achievement, performance, ability, aptitude)

• Connect keywords with AND (poverty and education and achievement)

• Use quotes to search for an exact phrase ("social inequality")

• Use OR to search synonyms (poverty or low-income and education)

• Search by keywords, not sentences (poverty and "secondary education" and achievement instead of effect of poverty on high school students)

• Use * to get different endings of a root word (school* finds school, schools, schooling)

• Look for subject terms or descriptors; use these terms to find more articles on your topic