For my first search I decided to focus on senior secondary history and inquiry learning, as I wanted to find documents that related directly to inquiry learning and how to apply specific methodologies into history classes that enable students to develop their inquiring minds and help them to become strong independent researchers.
This is my search string I used - “inquiry learning” AND secondary AND history
I wanted to keep things simple and see what results would be yielded as a result of this search. I also used boolean operators to signify that I wanted all of the documents to contain the key search words. My initial search retrieved 83 900 results and at a quick glance some of them could be quite valuable however most did not relate to Senior Modern History.
This is my search string I used - “inquiry learning” AND secondary AND history
I wanted to keep things simple and see what results would be yielded as a result of this search. I also used boolean operators to signify that I wanted all of the documents to contain the key search words. My initial search retrieved 83 900 results and at a quick glance some of them could be quite valuable however most did not relate to Senior Modern History.
I decided to then narrow down my results, as my first search yielded quite a few results for SOSE. My next complex search string was as follows: (“information literacy” OR ” information seeking” OR “information search process”) AND (secondary or senior) AND “modern history”. The results were significantly narrowed down and I found a lot more related directly to my topic. However on the whole I noticed that most of the results were not of a scholarly standard, with most either being curriculum documents, individual blogs or non academic sources.
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