Assignment: Secondary Research Practice

IB BUSINESS & MGMT HL C 2024
2024-08-16T19:43:29Z

Due: Oct 13, 2024 by 11:59pm

As you learned in the unit, secondary research is when you look at other people's primary or secondary research and use it for your own research. Lets go through some ways you can perform secondary research. Note - this will also be important for your EE's and IA's this year, or any other research projects you are assigned.

Google Scholar

First, lets look into google scholar. If you open a web browser and type in "google scholar" it will come up. Try it!

A. Watch this short video on how to use google scholar.

Google Scholar Tutorial

B. Next, in a google scholar search, type in "secondary student participation in after school activities"

Explore the results you get. There is some good stuff there to help you understand student participation in activities that could be helpful if you were trying to recruit more students to an after school activity, right?

C. Next, in the google scholar search type "get more kids to do after school activities"

Explore the results again. Answer this:

1. DID YOU GET BETTER OR WORSE RESULTS THIS TIME? WHY?

Scholarly journal searches

Next, watch this video from our librarian Ms. Del on how to access other databases we have access to.

https://youtu.be/vv76pV328LM?feature=shared

A. Log into the library and access Proquest.

B. Put in this search term again "secondary student participation in after school activities"

Answer this:

2. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE RESULTS YOU GOT FROM THIS RESOURCE? COMPARE AND CONTRAST THEM TO GOOGLE SCHOLAR.

Marketing Tools

Now lets look at an example of a marketing-specific tool. There are many of these out there, but I'm going to highlight one for you. Go to this website: https://www.similarweb.com/

A. Check out the "Products" tab to see what a paid subscription to this website could provide to you.

Answer this:

3. WHAT KINDS OF QUESTIONS COULD YOU ANSWER MORE EASILY WITH THIS THAN THE OTHER TWO RESOURCES? BE SPECIFIC.

B. Under "Free Tools" select "Analyze Website"

C. In the search bubble, put in this web address: https://www.rentonschools.us/

D. Review the results. Discuss with your table group what you think these results tell us about the website.

4. LIST AT LEAST 2 THINGS YOU SEE ON THESE RESULTS THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTHY OF SHARING WITH OUR DISTRICT'S WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR.

5. FOR EACH ITEM LISTED, PLEASE DESCRIBE WHY YOU THINK THESE ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE DISTRICT WEBSTIE ADMINISTRATOR TO KNOW.

As you learned in the unit, secondary research is when you look at other people's primary or secondary research and use it for your own research. Lets go through some ways you can perform secondary research. Note - this will also be important for your EE's and IA's this year, or any other research projects you are assigned.

Google Scholar

First, lets look into google scholar. If you open a web browser and type in "google scholar" it will come up. Try it!

A. Watch this short video on how to use google scholar.

Google Scholar Tutorial

B. Next, in a google scholar search, type in "secondary student participation in after school activities"

Explore the results you get. There is some good stuff there to help you understand student participation in activities that could be helpful if you were trying to recruit more students to an after school activity, right?

C. Next, in the google scholar search type "get more kids to do after school activities"

Explore the results again. Answer this:

1. DID YOU GET BETTER OR WORSE RESULTS THIS TIME? WHY?

Scholarly journal searches

Next, watch this video from our librarian Ms. Del on how to access other databases we have access to.

https://youtu.be/vv76pV328LM?feature=shared

A. Log into the library and access Proquest.

B. Put in this search term again "secondary student participation in after school activities"

Answer this:

2. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE RESULTS YOU GOT FROM THIS RESOURCE? COMPARE AND CONTRAST THEM TO GOOGLE SCHOLAR.

Marketing Tools

Now lets look at an example of a marketing-specific tool. There are many of these out there, but I'm going to highlight one for you. Go to this website: https://www.similarweb.com/

A. Check out the "Products" tab to see what a paid subscription to this website could provide to you.

Answer this:

3. WHAT KINDS OF QUESTIONS COULD YOU ANSWER MORE EASILY WITH THIS THAN THE OTHER TWO RESOURCES? BE SPECIFIC.

B. Under "Free Tools" select "Analyze Website"

C. In the search bubble, put in this web address: https://www.rentonschools.us/

D. Review the results. Discuss with your table group what you think these results tell us about the website.

4. LIST AT LEAST 2 THINGS YOU SEE ON THESE RESULTS THAT YOU THINK ARE WORTHY OF SHARING WITH OUR DISTRICT'S WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR.

5. FOR EACH ITEM LISTED, PLEASE DESCRIBE WHY YOU THINK THESE ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE DISTRICT WEBSTIE ADMINISTRATOR TO KNOW.