This may then be a good opportunity to suggest ways in which one may be
able to turn lead and tin into silver and gold. No, I am not preparing to
teach some tips in alchemy. This is instead mention of some ideas that
may help you to get more out of the scholoarly articles that you find.
The idea is to find one or a few on target citations, this is all one can
do on some topics. This is a method many students who do not want to put
much effort into library research for term papers use inappropriately.
They are doing for purposes of argument a paper of inclusion in the
classroom or mainstreaming and find one good scholarly article or a couple
and use the bibliographies in the few found articles to comprise the rest
of the works they are using in this paper. In this case, such a method
bypasses over eight thousand articles on this topic found in a loose
(entire text fields of citation records in databases selected) in a group
of potentially pertient databases.
(mainstreaming or inclusion) and students and (disabilities or disabled or
disability)
Records Found
Indeed bring this down to a level that Google can deal with and we have
this group of results:
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 497,000 for mainstreaming and students and
disabilities.
Scholar Results 1 - 10 of about 5,570 for mainstreaming and
students and disabilities
<http://scholar.google.com/>
Book Search Books 1 - 10 with 1710 pages on mainstreaming and students
and disabilities.
<http://books.google.com/>
Google UncleSam
Results 1 - 10 of about 21,100 for mainstreaming and students and
disabilities.
<http://www.google.com/unclesam>
Scirus
Searched for:: :All of the words:mainstreaming AND students AND
disabilities
Found:: :14,966 total | 173 journal results | 317 preferred web results |
14,476 other web results
<http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/>
But this method, if bad for topics swimming in results, because a small
sample of documents on such a topic may have content specializations or
biases that prevent the student from seeing a broader and more diverse
group of results. On this topic, however, the few results that present,
if my initial searching is representative of what is really out there, may
require all of the milking they can get.
For any citations that you find of relevance you will need access to the
print tool Science Citation Index and its companion Social Science
Citation Index and ALSO use the online counterpart Web of Science.
This is a case where visual inspection of print indexing may add to the
online content found. These two indexes and database are part of the
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) that is now owned by Thompsons,
which also owns Dialog, Datastar, BIOSIS, Westlaw, Gale and under Gale
Infotrak to name a few Thompson properties besides the Globe and Mail
newspaper in Canada. If you search an article in these publications by
author (last name and first initial) you will have much to wade through
that is by another author with the same name and initial, but if you hit
on a citation to the publication you are using, this database will list
those articles that have cited the publication you are using after it was
published.
Google Scholar will also indicate cited references when one finds articles
in a search using this tool. If the source in Google is fee based for any
articles one finds that one needs, go to ones library and request that
article through interlibrary loan if one cannot find an copy free on the
web by searching the article title in regular or web Google with the title
enclosed in parenthesis.
From our Google Scholar mainstreaming search:
Teacher Perceptions of Mainstreaming/inclusion, 1958-1995: A Research
Synthesis. - group of 2
TE Scruggs, MA Mastropieri - Exceptional Children, 1996 - questia.com
... In the Shotel et al. (1972) investigation, 71.9% of the teachers
supported
mainstreaming for students with learning disabilities. ...
Cited by 116 - Web Search - BL Direct
Clicking on the Cited by 116 link on sees this sample of results:
Scholar Results 1 - 10 of about 116 citing Scruggs: Teacher
Perceptions of Mainstreaming/inclusion, 1958-1995: A Research Synthesis..
(0.06 seconds)
Putting Inclusion into Practice: Perspectives of Teachers and Parents. -
group of 2
T Bennett, D Deluca, D Bruns - Exceptional Children, 1997 - questia.com
Putting Inclusion into Practice: Perspectives of Teachers and Parents>>
<script
language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> function init() {
refreshFrameBounds ...
Cited by 28 - Web Search - BL Direct
A Survey into Mainstream Teachers' Attitudes Towards the Inclusion of
Children with Special - group of 6
E AVRAMIDIS - Educational Psychology, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Page 1. Educational Psychology, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2000 A Survey into
Mainstream Teachers
Attitudes Towards the Inclusion of Children with Special ...
Cited by 22 - Web Search - BL Direct
Despite Best Intentions: When Inclusion Fails. - group of 4
N Mamlin - Journal of Special Education, 1999 - questia.com
Despite Best Intentions: When Inclusion Fails>> <script
language="JavaScript"
type="text/JavaScript"> function init() { refreshFrameBounds(); resize();
} function ...
Cited by 19 - Web Search - BL Direct
Effects of Reform-Based Mathematics Instruction on Low Achievers in Five
Third-Grade Classrooms - group of 4
JA Baxter, J Woodward, D Olson - The Elementary School Journal, 2001 -
JSTOR
.page { padding: 1em; } Effects of Reform-Based Mathematics Instruction on
Low
Achievers in Five Third-Grade Classrooms. Juliet A. Baxter. John Woodward.
...
Cited by 19 - Web Search - BL Direct
Inclusion or Delusion: Can one size fit all? - group of 2
G Hornby - Support for Learning, 1999 - Blackwell Synergy
Page 1. Inclusion or delusion: Can one size fit all? GARRY HORNBY Making
decisions The major controversy in the field of special ...
Cited by 15 - Web Search - BL Direct
Children with Specific Speech and Language Difficultiesthe teachers'
perspective - group of 4
JE DOCKRELL - Oxford Review of Education, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Page 1. Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2001 Children with
Speci
c Speech and Language Dif cultiesthe teachers perspective ...
Cited by 13 - Web Search - BL Direct
Teaching Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities to Recruit
Positive Teacher Attention. - group of 2
SR Alber, WL Heward, BJ Hippler - Exceptional Children, 1999 - questia.com
Teaching Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities to Recruit
Positive Teacher
Attention>> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> function
...
Cited by 12 - Web Search - BL Direct
Opportunities for Authentic Experience and Reflection: A Teaching
Programme Designed to Change - group of 2
J Brownlee, S Carrington - Support for Learning, 2000 - Blackwell Synergy
Page 1. Opportunities for authentic experience and reflection: a teaching
programme
designed to change attitudes towards disability for pre-service teachers
...
Cited by 11 - Web Search - BL Direct
Initiating and Fading Self-Management Interventions to Increase Math
Fluency in General Education - group of 2
D Mcdougall, MP Brady - Exceptional Children, 1998 - questia.com
Initiating and Fading Self-Management Interventions to Increase Math
Fluency in
General Education Classes>> <script language="JavaScript"
type="text/JavaScript" ...
Cited by 8 - Web Search - BL Direct
Reading Comprehensive Instruction for Secondary Students: Challenges for
Struggling Students and - group of 3
MA Mastropieri, TE Scruggs, JE Graetz - Learning Disability Quarterly,
2003 - questia.com
Reading Comprehensive Instruction for Secondary Students: Challenges for
Struggling
Students and Teachers>> <script language="JavaScript"
type="text/JavaScript" ...
Cited by 8 - Web Search - BL Direct
Bear in mind here that people cite documents for many reasons and thus
cited works may be totally useless to your work on a specific topic, but
like any other life raft for a drowning researcher, grasping at any straw
may be the only way to get results in the end.
Searching the topic in Google Books will find information buried inside
books that one would not judge to be there from the books cover.
Here is a citation to my piece about this tool for this kind of research.
Title: Librarians, Jelly Beans, and Google Book Search. (cover story)
Authors: Dillard, David1 [log in to unmask]
Source: Online; Mar/Apr2006, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p20-21, 2p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: *BIBLIOGRAPHICAL citations
*DATABASE searching
*INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
*ONLINE databases
*INTERNET searching
*ELECTRONIC information resource searching
Abstract: The article praises the use of Google Book Search's online full
text databases of collection of book content. The advent of full text
searching of books using Google aggregated text searchable database
enables individuals to find topical content in computerized databases of
newspaper, magazine and journal publications. Search capability for even
minor content within books has indeed become the case with the advent of
Google Book Search. Full-text databases of a huge collection of book
content will revolutionize research, since very minor and picky topics
will now be supported. Content on the most obscure subjects will be found
buried in books now that search tools such as Google Books can locate
these text segments.
Author Affiliations: 1Reference librarian, Temple University
Full Text Word Count: 852
ISSN: 0146-5422
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My overall advice on this topic is to try every technique that is out
there as finding the coins buried in the sand may take exceptional effort.
In the last few days I assisted a poster on another list regarding surgery
on the wrong side of the body in a very specific surgery and finding most
of the parameters wanted was only one citation with the responding terms
only in the bibliography of the article found and only because the
database used searched the bibliography as part of the search fields
checked. A search limited to subject heading and title would have never
located this document as a probative title.
I hope that this will be of some help.
By the way, the discussion group Net-Gold provides an extensive collection
of research tools and guidance along with featured news stories and other
content.
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
This subject guide leads to many internet search engines, databases,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, directories and more.
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
[log in to unmask]
Net-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
General Internet & Print Resources
<http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
<http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
Digital Divide Network
<http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
Educator-Gold
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/>
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On Sat, 13 May 2006, Heather Garrison wrote:
> Thank you, David. I haven't had much luck finding previous research that
> studied children's perceptions of disability in literature- one, to be
> exact:
> Smith-D'Arezzo, W. M. (2003). Diversity in children's literature: Not just a
> black and white issue. Children's Literature in Education, 34(1), 75-94.
> I suppose that's incentive for me to pursue this study but doesn't make it
> any easier! I'm hoping there are more studies "out there" just waiting to
> be shared with me. I appreciate your well wishes! :)
> Heather
> From: "David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Heather Garrison" <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: "The Disability-Research Discussion List"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 4:49 PM
> Subject: Re: Research help! [Childen's Attitudes Toward Disability in
> Literary Works]
> > This is quite a tall order and hopefully somebody out there will know of
> > more sources as these are borderline to off topic, but may neverless be of
> > some help. You may need to look seperately at disablity in literary works
> > and then look at the literature regarding children's, parent's and
> > teacher's attitudes towards those with disabilities as children learn from
> > teachers and parents and then do your own synthesis of the two groups of
> > literatures to create some relationships between the two if possible.
> >
> > Here are some citations to consider.
> > Young children's attitudes toward the disabled: a classroom intervention
> > using children's literature
> > Trepanier-Street, Mary L.;
> > Romatowski, Jane A.
> > Early Childhood Education Journal
> > v. 24 Fall 1996 p. 45-49
> > The portrayal of the cognitively disabled in children's literature.
> > Wagoner, Shirley A.;
> > Reading Teacher,
> > v 37 no. 6 February 1984. p. 502-508
> > Children's attitudes towards disability: A review and analysis of the
> > literature. Wetstein-Kroft, Susan B.;
> > Vargo, James W.
> > International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling
> > v. 7 no. 3 1984 p. 181-195
> > Using literary texts in teacher education to promote positive attitudes
> > toward children with disabilities
> > Marlowe, Mike; Maycock, George.
> > Teacher Education and Special Education v. 24 no. 2 Spring 2001 p.
> > 75-83
> > Best wishes for your success with this difficult topic.
> > Some on this list may also find this Net-Gold post sequence regarding
> > index lists for subject disciplines and topics in the Wikipedia to be
> > useful for those doing websites and want to cover fields completely,
> > hitting all of the subtopics or those doing research outlines.
> > From: "David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Sun May 7, 2006 9:17 am
> > Subject: REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: WIKIPEDIA : SUBJECT HEADINGS: LISTS :
> > KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: TERMINOLOGY : INFORMATION SCIENCE: List the
> > Wikipedia as Coming to Terms with Subject Fields and Subject Disciplines
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/12698>
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/12700>
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/12701>
> > There are also two free databases aimed at teachers and librarians that
> > may be helpful to some of the members of this discussion group.
> > From: "David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Thu May 11, 2006 9:47 pm
> > Subject: DATABASES: EDUCATION AND ERIC: From EBSCOhost: Teacher Reference
> > Center (TRC) - Journal Information for K-12 Teachers and Librarians
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/12776>
> > From: "David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Fri May 12, 2006 7:53 am
> > Subject: DATABASES: EDUCATION AND ERIC : HEALTH EDUCATION AND INFORMATION:
> > Using the EBSCO Elementary Secondary Education Database for Adolescent and
> > Adult Health Education Knowledge
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/12786>
> > Finally this reference tool and database on the internet may be useful to
> > some of this group's members.
> > From: "David P. Dillard" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Wed May 10, 2006 2:43 am
> > Subject: REFERENCE: ENCYCLOPEDIAS: SUBJECT : REFERENCE: TOOLS: MEDICAL
> > HEALTH BIOSCIENCES AND ENVIRONMENT : MEDICAL: REFERENCE: Illustrated
> > Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/12736>
> > Sincerely,
> > David Dillard
> > Temple University
> > (215) 204 - 4584
> > [log in to unmask]
> > Net-Gold
> > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
> > <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html>
> > General Internet & Print Resources
> > <http://library.temple.edu/articles/subject_guides/general.jsp>
> > <http://www.learningis4everyone.org/>
> > <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
> > Digital Divide Network
> > <http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/jwne>
> > Educator-Gold
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/
> > ========================================================
> > On Fri, 12 May 2006, Heather Garrison wrote:
> >> Can anyone suggest studies that have researched children's perceptions
> >> of characters with disability in literature? I'm beginning my
> >> dissertation and plan to study how adolescents perceive disability in
> >> the novel Of Mice and Men and consider implications for instructional
> >> practices and the promulgation of social values. I'm excited to finally
> >> reach this point in my academic career and greatly appreciate any help.
> >> Feel free to respond on or off list, my email is [log in to unmask]
> >> Thanks!
> >> Heather
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