Mod. 3 Project (L)

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Thesis/Research Question(s):
Primary Research Question: How does shorter summer break in year-round school impact children?

Supporting Research Questions: How do children attending year-round schools benefit from a shorter summer break?
What are the challenges for children and their families with a shorter summer break?
Why are there not more year-round schools? (Is this due to the shorter summer break?)

Concept One:
summer break

“summer break” OR break OR “summer vacation”

Concept Two:
children child* OR student* OR “student learning”

Concept Three:
year-round school “year-round school” OR “year-round education” OR “balanced calendar”

1) Extract Main Concepts: summer break, children, year-round school
2) Create a list of synonyms and related concepts for each main concept:

summer break, break, summer vacation
children, child, students, student, student learning
year-round school, year-round education, balanced calendar

3) Link synonyms and related concepts with OR
“summer break” OR break* OR “summer vacation”
child* OR student* OR “student learning”
“year-round school” OR “year-round education” OR “balanced calendar”

4) Link main concepts with AND
“summer break” AND “year-round school”
“summer break” AND child* AND “year-round school”

AND

AND

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“summer break” OR break* AND “year-round school” OR “balanced calendar”

5) Utilize phrases (“”) and truncation (*)
“summer break” AND “student learning” AND “year-round school”
“summer vacation” AND “student learning” AND “year-round school”

“summer break” AND “student learning” AND “year-round education”
“summer vacation” AND “student learning” AND “year-round education”

“summer break” AND student* AND “balanced calendar”
“summer vacation” AND student* AND “balanced calendar”
break* AND student* AND “balanced calendar”