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Direct linkMaartje van der Eem; Jannet van Drie; Saskia Brand-Gruwel; Carla van Boxtel – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Fake news and disinformation are easily spread in today's digital society. Therefore, it is important that students learn how to evaluate the trustworthiness of online information, but this skill is often confined to a limited number of subjects in secondary education. History classes can potentially contribute to developing this skill. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Internet, Grade 9, Secondary School Students
Download full textKeba, Michelle; Fairall, Elizabeth – Communications in Information Literacy, 2020
Information literacy is the primary instructional focus of many librarians. With the development of a core set of information literacy threshold concepts, librarians often strive to impart these concepts to undergraduate students during their years of study. However, when students come to school, they are not blank slates. They arrive with…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Misconceptions, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen
Gottschling, Steffen; Kammerer, Yvonne; Thomm, Eva; Gerjets, Peter – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
When reading scientific information on the Internet laypersons frequently encounter conflicting claims. However, they usually lack the ability to resolve these scientific conflicts based on their own prior knowledge. This study aims to investigate how differences in the trustworthiness and/or expertise of the sources putting forward the…
Descriptors: Lay People, Scientific and Technical Information, Internet, Reading Comprehension
Building Information Literacy: Using "sInvestigator" to Evaluate the Credibility of Internet Sources
Galanti, Terrie McLaughlin; Holincheck, Nancy; Tecuci, Georghe; Boicu, Mihai; trefil, James; Marcu, Dorin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
The interdisciplinary National Science Foundation-funded research project "Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in Science with 'sInvestigator'" supports undergraduate students as they explore scientific topics and problems with the use of an intelligent computer system called "sInvestigator" (science Investigator). The research…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Credibility, Internet, Undergraduate Students
Tomczyk, Lukasz; Potyrala, Katarzyna – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article we present the level of knowledge and literacy held by the parents of primary school students regarding internet safety (online safety, digital safety) in the context of digital literacy (DL) in terms of both technical skills and knowledge. The study reported on here was conducted in Poland, and was commissioned by the Ministry of…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Influence, Individual Characteristics, Children
Taylor, Arthur; Dalal, Heather A. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: This paper aims to determine how appropriate information literacy instruction is for preparing students for these unmediated searches using commercial search engines and the Web. Method. A survey was designed using the 2000 Association of College and Research Libraries literacy competency standards for higher education. Survey…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Standards, Student Surveys, Internet
