Answered By: Rebecca Sedam
Last Updated: Feb 07, 2023     Views: 169

The ERIC Education Resources EBSCO database is a good fit for your topic. (The Oakton subscription requires a current Oakton username and password.) It has full-text articles from several hundred education journals.  I've prepared a sample search to help you get started.

1st line: family influence or family involvement or parent influence or family role (in SU descriptors)

2nd line: dropout* (in SU descriptors, be sure to use the asterisk * symbol as shown)

3rd line: college* or universit* (in SU descriptors, be sure to use the asterisk * symbol as shown)

Sample ERIC database search

NOTE: Why does this search use asterisk * symbols?  Truncation in EBSCO databases (and many others) is represented by an asterisk *. This allows you to enter the root of a search term and find various endings. For example:

universit*

should retrieve university, university's, universities, and universities'.

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