Research Journal Assingment #8a: Websites

Search Engine Used: RedZ
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Developmental Education, Lev Vygotsky, Social Construction
Search Strategy Used: Boolean Operators, AND, OR
Date Searched: October 8, 2009
Number of Hits: 25, 22, 30
Relevance of Hits: 5, 3, 4

Meta Search Engine Used: Meta Crawler
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Developmental Education, Lev Vygotsky, Differences
Search Strategy: Advanced Search and Boolean Operators, AND
Date Searched: October 8, 2009
Number of Hits: 40, 41
Relevance of Hits: 5, 4

Directory Used: INFOMINE
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Developmental Education, Lev Vygotsky
Search Strategy: Refined Search by Category (Social Sciences) and Boolean Operator, AND
Date Searched: October 8, 2009
Number of Hits: 1, 2
Relevance of Hits: 5, 5

Invisible Web Search Tool Used: DeepDyve
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Developmental Education, Lev Vygotsky, Differences
Search Strategy: Refine search by category (Social Sciences, and Web) and Boolean Operator, AND, OR
Date of Search: October 8, 2009
Number of Hits: 55
Relevance of Hits: 5

Other Search Tool Used: Digg (Social Bookmarking Service)
Keywords Used: Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Developmental Education
Search Strategy Used: Boolean Operators, AND with little to no usefulness
Date of Search: October 8, 2009
Number of Hits: 3, 52
Relevance of Hits: 4, 3