Thursday, September 24, 2009
Research Journal Assignment #6b: Search Strings
I didn't receive any feedback on my search strings but after performing more searches into my research I have found a few useful ideas for my search strings. This includes the use of OR as a Boolean operator mainly. For example:
Jean Piaget AND Theory OR Education OR Development
or
Lev Vygotsky AND Theory OR Education OR Development
or
Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky AND Differences OR Similarities
I found that simply using the AND operator gave many search engines too specified parameters to work within and quite often yielded no results at all. Using the OR operator gives the search engine more room and options to work with. Although this might not always return the most refined searches it is still beneficial and helpful, especially when using the AND operator is too narrow of a strategy.
Research Journal Assignment #6a: Periodical Articles
Author: Diane Hofkins
Title of Artilce: The government wants top graduates to go into early years teaching. They could find it suits them perfectly
Title of Periodical: The Guardian
Date: March 10, 2009
Section: Guardian Education Pages, Page 29
Resource Used: LexisNexis
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Educational, Theory
Search Strategy: Boolean Operators, AND
Date of Search: Thursday September 24, 2009
Hits: 3
Relevance of: 5
Author: Teresa Cairns
Title of Article: How Acquiring Basic Skills Should be Part of Everyday Life
Title of Periodical: Adults Learning
Volume: 13
Issue: 3
Date: November 2001
Page: 20
Resource Used: EBSCO
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Theories
Search Stategy: Boolean Operators- AND
Date of Search: Thursday September 24, 2009
Hits: 1
Relevance of: 4
Author: Jonathan Openshaw
Title of Article: A short history of the psychology of childhood
Title of Periodical: The Financial Times
Date: May 23, 2009
Section: Life and Arts: Weekend Supplement
Resource Used: Gale Cenage Learning
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky
Search Strategy: Boolean Operators- AND
Date of Search: Thursday September 24, 2009
Hits: 1
Relevance of: 5
Title of Artilce: The government wants top graduates to go into early years teaching. They could find it suits them perfectly
Title of Periodical: The Guardian
Date: March 10, 2009
Section: Guardian Education Pages, Page 29
Resource Used: LexisNexis
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Educational, Theory
Search Strategy: Boolean Operators, AND
Date of Search: Thursday September 24, 2009
Hits: 3
Relevance of: 5
Author: Teresa Cairns
Title of Article: How Acquiring Basic Skills Should be Part of Everyday Life
Title of Periodical: Adults Learning
Volume: 13
Issue: 3
Date: November 2001
Page: 20
Resource Used: EBSCO
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Theories
Search Stategy: Boolean Operators- AND
Date of Search: Thursday September 24, 2009
Hits: 1
Relevance of: 4
Author: Jonathan Openshaw
Title of Article: A short history of the psychology of childhood
Title of Periodical: The Financial Times
Date: May 23, 2009
Section: Life and Arts: Weekend Supplement
Resource Used: Gale Cenage Learning
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky
Search Strategy: Boolean Operators- AND
Date of Search: Thursday September 24, 2009
Hits: 1
Relevance of: 5
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Research Journal Assignment #5b: Finding Books
Following Entries Found on: Skyline (Auraria Library)
Using Keywords: Jean Piaget AND Theory AND Education
With Search Strategy: Boolean Operators- AND
Searched On: Wednesday September 16, 2009
With: 17 Hits
With Relevance Of: 5
Author: R. Bott
Editor: Molly Brearley
Title: The teaching of young children: some applications of Piaget's learning theory
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Schocken Books
Date of Publication: 1970
Authors: Greg Dimitriadis and George Kamberelis
Title: Theory for Education
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 2006
Editors: Jeremy Carpendale and Ulrich Muller
Title: Social Interaction and the Development of Knowledge
Place of Publication: Mahwah, NJ
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Date of Publication: 2004
Author: Constance Kamii
Title: Number in Preschool and Kindergarten: Education Implications of Piaget's Theory
Place of Publication: Washington D.C.
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children
Date of Publication: 1982
Author: Celia Lavatelli
Title: Piaget's Theory Applied to an Early Childhood Curriculum
Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA
Publisher: American Science and Engineering
Date of Publication: 1973
Following Entry found on Skyline (Auraria Library)
Using Keywords: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky
With Search Strategy: Boolean Operator- AND
Searched on: Wednesday September 16, 2009
With: 3 Hits
With Relevance of: 5
Editors: Anastasia Tryphon and Jacques Voneche
Title: Piaget-Vygotsky: The Social Genesis of Thought
Place of Publication: Hove, East Sussex, UK
Publisher: Psychology Press
Date of Publication: 1996
Following Entry found on: Skyline (Auraria Library)
Using Keywords: Lev Vygotsky AND Theory AND Education
With Search Strategy: Boolean Operator-AND
Searched on: Wednesday September 16, 2009
With: 3 Hits
With a Relevance of: 5
Editors: Harry Daniels, Michael Cole, and James Wertsch
Title: The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky
Place of Publication: Cambridge, NY
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 2007
Following Entry found on: Douglas County Library Websit
Using Keywords: Jean Piaget AND Theory AND Education
With Search Strategy: Boolean Operator-AND
Searched on: Wednesday September 16, 2009
With: 2 Hits
With a Relevance of: 5
Author: Barry Wadsworth
Title: Piaget's Theory of Cognitive and Affective Development
Edition: Classic Education 5th Edition
Series: Allyn and Bacon Classics in Education
Place of Publication: Boston, MA
Publisher: A and B
Date of Publication: 2004
Following Entry was found on: Prospector
Using Keywords: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky
With Search Strategy: Boolean Operator-AND
Searched on: Wednesday September 16, 2009
With: 12 Hits
With a Relevance of: 5
Author: Susan Pass
Title: Parallel Paths to Constructivism: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky
Place of Publication: Greenwich, CN
Publisher: Information Age Publishers
Date of Publication: 2004
Research Journal Assignment #5a: Finding Reference Articles
I searched Encylopedia (Infoplease.com)
with the keyword: Jean Piaget
I had no real search strategy, this was simply a broad search to see what I might find and I searched it on Thursday September 17, 2009.
I had 120 hits with varying relevance but the articles I looked up had a decent relevancy around 3.5 or 4 to my research.
The Article I pulled up was a Biography of Piaget's life and the background into his career, written by Who2 and copywritten in 2007 by Pearson Education.
I then refined by search on the same site by using the search string: Jean Piaget AND Theory AND Education on Thursday September 17, 2009 and I still recieved 120 hits but this time there were only about seven that appeared at the top with all the words I put into the search and the article I found was of a relevance of around 3.5 to my research.
The Article I investigated was an article on Educational Theory and Development and the big names that helped futher this field, including Piaget. It was written by W.F. Connel in A History of Education in the Twentieth Century World in 1980 and presented by the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia the 6th Edition copywritten in 2007 by Columbia University Press.
On Gale Virtual Reference Library Database on the Auraria Library site I found an article about the lives of Piaget and Vygotsky and thier research careers. I found this using the keywords: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky. I found it on Thursday September 17, 2009. This provided me with 12 hits that had a relevance of 5.
The main article of interest to me on Piaget was by Fernando Vidal in the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography volume 24 pages 90-96. It was published in Detroit, MI in 2008 by the Charles Scribner's Sons Publishers. The piece on Vygotsky was written by Rene van der Veer on pages 192-197.
On Gale Virtual Reference Library I also found another biographical article and information article on both Piaget and his relation to Vygotsky. I found it using the same keywords as before: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky. I found it again on Thursday September 17, 2009. Again I had twelve hits and they were of a relevance of 5 to my research.
This article on Piaget was written by Kristen Krapp in Psychologists and Their Theories for Students volume 2 and this article spans pages 345-372. It was copywritten in 2005 and published in Detroit, MI by Cengage Learning.
Also using Gale Virtual Reference Library I found an encylopedia on psychology of classroom learning in which both Piaget's and Vygotsky's theories are outlined. I found it using the same keywords as before: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky. I found it on Thursday September 17, 2009 with 12 hits each with a relevance of 5 to my research.
This entry in the encylopedia was edited by Eric Anderman and Lynley Anderman in the Psychology of Classroom Learning: an Encylopedia. The Piaget article was written by Dorothy Singer and the article by Vygotsky was written by Mary Gauvain. It was copywritten in 2009 and published in Detroit, MI by Macmillan Reference USA. This article spans pages 181-205 in volume 1.
with the keyword: Jean Piaget
I had no real search strategy, this was simply a broad search to see what I might find and I searched it on Thursday September 17, 2009.
I had 120 hits with varying relevance but the articles I looked up had a decent relevancy around 3.5 or 4 to my research.
The Article I pulled up was a Biography of Piaget's life and the background into his career, written by Who2 and copywritten in 2007 by Pearson Education.
I then refined by search on the same site by using the search string: Jean Piaget AND Theory AND Education on Thursday September 17, 2009 and I still recieved 120 hits but this time there were only about seven that appeared at the top with all the words I put into the search and the article I found was of a relevance of around 3.5 to my research.
The Article I investigated was an article on Educational Theory and Development and the big names that helped futher this field, including Piaget. It was written by W.F. Connel in A History of Education in the Twentieth Century World in 1980 and presented by the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia the 6th Edition copywritten in 2007 by Columbia University Press.
On Gale Virtual Reference Library Database on the Auraria Library site I found an article about the lives of Piaget and Vygotsky and thier research careers. I found this using the keywords: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky. I found it on Thursday September 17, 2009. This provided me with 12 hits that had a relevance of 5.
The main article of interest to me on Piaget was by Fernando Vidal in the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography volume 24 pages 90-96. It was published in Detroit, MI in 2008 by the Charles Scribner's Sons Publishers. The piece on Vygotsky was written by Rene van der Veer on pages 192-197.
On Gale Virtual Reference Library I also found another biographical article and information article on both Piaget and his relation to Vygotsky. I found it using the same keywords as before: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky. I found it again on Thursday September 17, 2009. Again I had twelve hits and they were of a relevance of 5 to my research.
This article on Piaget was written by Kristen Krapp in Psychologists and Their Theories for Students volume 2 and this article spans pages 345-372. It was copywritten in 2005 and published in Detroit, MI by Cengage Learning.
Also using Gale Virtual Reference Library I found an encylopedia on psychology of classroom learning in which both Piaget's and Vygotsky's theories are outlined. I found it using the same keywords as before: Jean Piaget AND Lev Vygotsky. I found it on Thursday September 17, 2009 with 12 hits each with a relevance of 5 to my research.
This entry in the encylopedia was edited by Eric Anderman and Lynley Anderman in the Psychology of Classroom Learning: an Encylopedia. The Piaget article was written by Dorothy Singer and the article by Vygotsky was written by Mary Gauvain. It was copywritten in 2009 and published in Detroit, MI by Macmillan Reference USA. This article spans pages 181-205 in volume 1.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Research Journal Assignment #4c: Checking Research Questions
These are the two fellow classmates' journal posts that I commented on, David and Zach.
http://zachlashley.blogspot.com/2009/09/rja-3c-developing-research-question.html#comment-form
Research Journal Assignment #4b: Writing Search Strings
Boolean:
(Piaget OR Jean Piaget) (Piaget OR Jean Piaget)
AND(theor* OR idea*) or AND(theor* OR idea*)
AND(use* OR practic*) AND(Vygotsky OR Lev Vygotsky)
AND(theor* OR idea*)
Math:
Piaget +theor* - Vygotsky
or
Piaget +Vygotsky +theor*
or
Piaget +theor* +use*
Research Journal Assignment #4a: Generating Keywords
Forest Log Scheme to Generate Keywords for: Should either Piaget or Vygotsky's theories of developmental educational psychology be used over the other?
FO: Forms: Should: Shouldn't
theories: theory, theorize, theoretical
used: use, using, useful
RE: Related Terms: Should: Might, Possible
FO: Forms: Should: Shouldn't
theories: theory, theorize, theoretical
used: use, using, useful
RE: Related Terms: Should: Might, Possible
theories: plan, development, way of thinking
used: put in place, made accessible, understood
ST: Synonymous Terms: Should: Ought, May, Is it more beneficial
theories: ideas, system, findings, discoveries
used: put to work, practiced, developed
LOG: Psychology > Learning > Education > Educational Development > Developmental Theories/ Theorists > Piaget vs Vygotsky
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Research Journal Assignment #3c: Developing Research Questions
- To what extent are the theories compatible?
- How is each theory used in schools today?
- Why are these theories important today?
- How do these theories affect classroom procedure?
- Is one theory more useful than the other?
- When should each theory be applied?
- Which theory is most effective?
- Should one theory be used over the other?
Research Journal Assignment #3b: Narrowing Research Topic
When we were first introduced to the idea of writing a research paper about whatever topic we would like from our field of interest, I was eager to begin and I had so many possible topics running through my mind. I am majoring in Human Development and studying Education as I want to become an Elementary School teacher. So at first I decided I would really like to discuss the topic of education. After I thought about this topic some more I realized that this topic was much too broad in its focus and that I needed to narrow the scope because there are so many different facets to the greater context of Education. I began narrowing my topic down before class on Tuesday September first and class that day only re-enforced what I had decided for my topic. I have settled on comparing and contrasting Piaget's theory of Developmental Psychology to Vygotsky's after narrowing down my topic and I am much more comfortable and prepared now.
Research Journal Assignment #3a: Exploring Research Topic
I did a little research into the basics of the theories and what the main points are for each one. Upon doing the research I found the fundamental differences in each. In order to begin this research I looked on Technorati, Google, and Wikipedia. These sites then directed me to more appropriate sites to find the information I was looking for. Lastly I book marked the sites I found useful to my research and sites I might want to revisit on my Delicious account, providing an accurate description of what I found on these sites.
Piaget's Theory stresses:
- Child led learning/hands on experience
- Assimilation and Accommodation as a form of learning new information
- Schemas as ways to classify information
- Stages through which children progress cognitively in their development
- And operation and play as a form of learning
- Adult facilitated learning
- The idea of the zone of proximal development as a form of learning new information
- Belief in self talk as means to further understanding
- Emphasized the society and culture's role in conditioning learners
- He also marked language as the key tool in development
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