When searching for information for your learning theories assignment on the Mardigian Library website, you'll likely want to search using keywords that include the name of the learning theory you are researching and also associated people.
These tips are specific for our general Mardigian Search, however, you can apply these same keyword search strategies to anywhere you do research.
Keyword Searches
- Keywords are the important themes and words you're interested in researching
- Keywords are the who, what, when, where, and why
- You may have to look for synonyms or variations to your original keyword search.
- For example, if you are searching for information on Socio-constructivism, you may try searching using Mardigian Search using just those words. You also might try adding the main researcher for this theory, Maslow. So you search would be [socio-constructvism AND Maslow]
- You may need to try variations on your search, sometimes people refer to learning theories in a slighty different way from one another. For example, instead of calling it "socio-constructivism" some people call this "social constructivism" and so you should try search using these two different names,
Select Content Type
- Choose what format you'd prefer
- Examples: Book/eBook, Journal Article, Magazine Article, Streaming Video, Reference Source
- Reference Sources might be a helpful place for you to start with your research for this assignment. Reference sources include things like dictionaries and encyclopedias so they should give you good overviews of your learning theory.
