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Advanced Searching with Boolean Operators

Boolean Searching Tips

Boolean Operator Example What it does
AND bilingual education AND language policy Narrows your search
OR teens OR adolescents OR "young adults" Broadens your search
NOT heritage language immersion NOT "dual language immersion" Weeds out unhelpful stuff
"" (Quotation marks) "second language acquisition" Searches an exact phrase, those words in that order
* (Asterisk)

communic*

(will include possibilities like communication, communicators, communicating, etc)

Includes all possible word ending variations

 

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Teacher Licensure

Bilingual and Multilingual Education

Education Policy

Cultural Diversity

Math and Science Curriculum & Instruction

Educational Measurement

Literacy Studies

Professional Development, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

History of Education