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.