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"This Is Crazy…She's Real": How Fourth-Grade Readers Establish Source Authority
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Walsh-Moorman, Elizabeth; Hovick, Kate – Reading Teacher, 2021
A classroom teacher and a university researcher examined what criteria fourth-grade students use to examine text authority and how traditional and new literacy skills may support such evaluation. Results of this case study indicate that students rely heavily on traditional reading skills, including background knowledge and vocabulary skill, to…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Information Sources, Credibility
Improving International Assessment through Evaluation
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Rutkowski, David – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
In this article I advocate for a new discussion in the field of international large-scale assessments; one that calls for a reexamination of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) and their use. Expanding on the high-quality work in this special issue I focus on three inherent limitations to international large-scale assessments noted by…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Reading Achievement
Seamless Learning in the Mobile Age: A Theoretical and Methodological Discussion on Using Cooperative Inquiry to Study Digital Kids On-the-Move
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Toh, Yancy; So, Hyo-Jeong; Seow, Peter; Chen, Wenli; Looi, Chee-Kit – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
This paper shares the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are deployed in a 3-year study to examine how Singapore primary school students leverage on mobile technology for seamless learning. This notion of seamless learning refers to the integrated and synergistic effects of learning in both formal and informal settings, which is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Inquiry, Cooperation
The Impact of Instruction in the WWWDOT Framework on Students' Disposition and Ability to Evaluate Web Sites as Sources of Information
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Zhang, Shenglan; Duke, Nell K. – Elementary School Journal, 2011
Much research has demonstrated that students are largely uncritical users of Web sites as sources of information. Research-tested frameworks are needed to increase elementary-age students' awareness of the need and ability to critically evaluate Web sites as sources of information. This study is a randomized field trial of such a framework called…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Computer Literacy
Elementary Children's Judgments of the Epistemic Status of Sources of Justification
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Sandoval, William A.; Cam, Aylin – Science Education, 2011
This study investigated children's judgments of the epistemic status of justifications for causal claims. Twenty-six children (14 boys, 12 girls) between the ages of 8 and 10 were asked to help two story characters choose the "best reason" for believing a claim. The reasons included appeals to an authority, to a plausible causal mechanism, or to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Credibility, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making
Guiding Independence: Developing a Research Tool to Support Student Decision Making in Selecting Online Information Sources
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Baildon, Rindi; Baildon, Mark – Reading Teacher, 2008
The development and use of a research tool to guide fourth-grade students' use of information sources during a research project is described in this article. Over a period of five weeks, 21 fourth-grade students in an international school in Singapore participated in a study investigating the extent to which the use of a "research resource…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Readability, Information Sources, Credibility