Database: ERIC/EBSCOhost
I used the known item from the last search strategy: The Impact of School Media Centers on Academic Achievement. After searching for this item in ERIC/EBSCOhost with the title field selected, I retrieved four hits with the same title. This document had the following terms indexed: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Librarians, Library Collections, Library Expenditures, Library Funding, Library Role, Library Services, Library Surveys, Media Specialists, Predictor Variables, School Libraries, Elementary Secondary Education.
I selected "library role," "school libraries," and "academic achievement" to build a better set or pearl. A total of 64 documents were returned. One article I found to be relevant and interesting was "School Media Centers as Instructional Resources. The Informed Educator Series" This article discusses how the most successful schools recognize the need for effective school libraries to increase student learning.
Evaluation: Since I already had a known item, searching for it ERIC/EBSCOhost was easy. Seeing the terms this item had indexed gave me a good idea of how to make my future search queries more specific if needed.
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