COLA 100 "College Success"

Strategy 1: Chronicle of Higher Education plus scholarly journal article

1. Search for your retention/dropout factor in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a news source for people who work in colleges and universities. Click "Search within this publication" to get a search box. Look for a relatively recent article (maybe after 2015, after 2020 would be better). 
2. Build your background
   1. What terms do the reporters use to describe the problem? Who is involved? You can use these terms for searching later.
   2. Does the article mention a particular study? Use details like author, title of the article, or title of the journal to track it down (Mark can help with this).
3. Use what you learned in the Chronicle article to track down a peer reviewed article. 
   1. Use Academic Search Premier or Quicksearch (the search engine on the library home page).
   2. Limit your results to peer-reviewed articles.

Strategy 2: Scholarly journal article only

1. Use Academic Search Premier or Quicksearch (the search engine on the library home page).
2. Limit your results to peer-reviewed articles.

Example: Report: College Students Taking Fewer Credit Hours Than Before (Download the pdf to get the full effect.)

How I found it:

• https://www.library.unlv.edu/
• Use the QuickSearch search box to search for pandemic AND "college students" .
• Use the filter for Magazines (found under Format on the right).

Example: Deciphering the sophomore slump: changes to student perceptions during the undergraduate journey (View the pdf to get the full effect)

How I found it:

• https://www.library.unlv.edu/
• Use the QuickSearch search box to search for dropouts AND "college students" AND belonging.
• Use the filter for Peer reviewed Journal articles (found under Show Only on the right).