ProQuest was similar to A+ Education in that the search strings using parentheses did not yield any results. Note that I decided to add "NOT science" to my search string as previous results contained quite a lot of information on science. I liked that ProQuest also suggested alternate subjects. This could have been helpful if searching for a particular Modern History subject, however in this case I was more concerned with the full subject and how to apply inquiry based learning within the discipline rather than learning about specific Modern History content.
After simplifying my search string and taking out the parentheses, significantly more results were obtained. Whilst I did have sift through quite a few results, it was helpful that ProQuest provided snippets of the text with highlighted search words. This made it quite easy to sift through the results as I was able to quickly read over the small amounts of text to see if the result related to my needs in anyway. I was quite happy with my ProQuest search as the results were of a scholarly standard and I found a few research papers that will definitely help me through my exploration into inquiry learning and teaching of Modern History.
As you can see above, ProQuest highlights all the relevant words from your search, so you are able to quickly see if any of the short abstracts relate to what you need. This makes sifting through results relatively pain free!
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