3. The value of literature
• Glean idea
• Study other research
• Give idea areas where research needs to
be done
4. Types of Resources
1. General Reference tools : come first
(Systematical information)
Examples: articles, books, reports,
indexes, abstracts
2. Primary sources : their study directly to
the reader(Detail information)
Example: journal
5. Types of Resources
3. Secondary sources : author describe the
work of others.(quick overview)
Examples: educational encyclopedias,
textbooks
6. Steps Involve in a Literature
Research
1. Define research problem
2. Look relevant secondary sources
3. Select and peruse general reference
4. Formulate search terms
5. Search relevant primary sources
6. Obtain and read relevant primary sources, and
note and summarize key points in the sources.
7. Doing a Computer Search
1. Define the problem
2. Decide the extent of the search
3. Decide on the database
4. Select search words and discover
descriptors
5. Conduct the search
8. Doing a Computer Search
6. Documenting citation information
– Searching ERIC
– Searching PscycINFO
7. Obtain primary sources
– Professional Journals
– Reports
9. Doing a Computer Search
6. Locating primary sources
7. Using secondary Sources to Locate
Primary Sources
– Meta-Analysis
8. Evaluating primary sources
10. The Benefits of Computer
Search
1. Fast
2. Cheap
3. Provides printout also
11. Writing the Literature Review
Report
Part of this process involves reformulating
the main question that guides your
literature review oftentimes in the process
of reviewing the research
12. Steps in Writing Literature Review
• Organize analyze
• Integrate categorize
• Synthezise
Locate and Evaluate the Sources
13. Why we need them?
• Improve & restate the question
• Helps to clarify purpose & scope of the
literature review.
• Examine the topic more deeply.
14. 5 parts of Literature Review
1) Introduction
2) Body
3) Summary
4) Conclusions
5) Reference List
15. Meta-Analysis
To help researcher in making the searching
process effectively (many studies in same
topic). In meta-analysis, researcher
averages the results of the selected
studies to get an overall index of outcome
or relationship. The result should be
described statistically.
The Benefits of Computer Search
