Videos on Finding Empirical Articles
Where Can I Find Empirically-Based Education Articles?
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PsycINFOCoverage: 1887 - current. Comprehensive international database of psychology. Covers the academic, research, and practice literature in psychology.
The most direct route is to search PsycInfo, linked above.
This will take you to the Advanced Search, where you can type in your key words at the top. Then scroll down through all the limiting options to the Methodology menu. Select Empirical Study.
In other databases without the Methodology limiter, such as Education Source, try keywords like empirical, study, and research.
How Can I Tell if an Article is Empirical?
Check for these components:
- Peer-reviewed
- Charts, graphs, tables, and/or statistical analyses
- More than 5 pages
- Sections with names like: Abstract, Introduction, Literature Review, Method, Data, Analysis, Results, Discussion, References
Look for visual cues of data collection and analysis:
