Start out by deciding exactly what you want to find. Entering a vague or very general phrase, e.g., "student success," won't find what you need. Use your class notes, textbook, and/or testing results to help you decide on a particular aspect of the overall subject, and concentrate on that.
To find articles on topics relating to education, you will have to use either a paper or an electronic index that covers periodicals. Journals, magazines, and newspapers are all periodicals, but most of the periodicals covered by the indexes specializing in education are journals, which publish high-quality articles in education.
Education Full Text, Education Database, and Educator's Reference Complete feature advanced search pages with multiple spaces that make searching easy. A search with AND combines two ideas together, for example, "Test-taking" AND "college students." In the Advanced Search just put your terms on two separate lines to combine them together.
All the electronic databases listed in this section may be accessed by going to the library's Database Page. If you are using databases from off campus, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and password.
TIP: When using keywords, try truncating: theor* finds theory, theories, theoretical, etc. (* is the truncation character for most databases).