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Roman Abel; Julian Roelle; Marc Stadtler – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated how the sequence of presenting social media sources in an unsupervised inductive learning setting supports the acquisition of source evaluation skills in two different age groups. Participants were 63 upper and 59 lower secondary students. They had to identify characteristics of trustworthiness while studying sources labeled as…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Evaluation Criteria, Skill Development, Credibility
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Allison, Meredith; Brimacombe, C. A. Elizabeth; Hunter, Michael A.; Kadlec, Helena – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study examined the relationship between witness age, narrative features in testimony, and the perceived credibility of witnesses. Ninety older and young adult witnesses to a staged theft were videotaped as they freely recalled crime events. Later, participant-jurors viewed the videos and assessed the witnesses' credibility. Operational…
Descriptors: Adults, Young Adults, Definitions, Interrater Reliability