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GED-800 Dissertation Seminar

Advanced Research for the Dissertation

Find Articles Based on Methodology / Research Design

Most academic databases do not offer a field or filter for research methodology. One key exception to this is PsycINFO.
Your best bet for building a research method facet to your search is as follows:
  1. Use the Advanced Search screen
  2. In one of your search boxes, type in your desired research design - e.g. action research, quantitative, survey or questionnaire research, etc. - and select the field, 'Abstract'.
  3. Put quotation marks around words that you would expect to appear as a phrase, e.g. "action research"
  4. In the other search boxes, type in your search terms. Then run the search.

Limit your results to articles that include Tests / Questionnaires in ERIC via EBSCO

  • Using the Advanced Search screen, enter your search terms in the boxes at the top. Scroll down the page to the limiter options.
  • Under the Publication Type limiter, select 'Tests/Questionnaires'.


Limit your results to articles with a given research methodology in PsycINFO

  • Using the Advanced Search screen, enter your search terms in the boxes at the top. Scroll down the page to the limiter options.
  • Under the Methodology limiter, select your desired research method.