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I. Adjust search terms•Use synonyms, related terms, wildcards, or combine with OR•Search with Explode for the marked term along with its narrower terms

II. Search in a larger domain•Change fields, e.g. title instead of descriptors•Automatically repeat searches in more databases of the same family

You expect to find more hits on student attitudes to portfolio assessment in PsycINFO

Select PsycInfo and click Run Search

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Portfolio assessment is not a descriptor in PsycInfo (0 hits),but student attidudes is (a small 30,000 hits)

Portfolio* appears in the title field of articles (642 hits)

The combination of these results leads to 28 publications