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Ziv, Nadav; Bene, Emma – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Misinformation has become a regular feature of the Internet. Research suggests that everyone, including young people who have grown up with digital devices, struggles to differentiate fact from fiction online because they read closely rather than turning to external sources. We analyzed the resources students find when they seek advice offered by…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods
Lowe, M. Sara; Macy, Katharine V.; Murphy, Emily; Kani, Justin – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Librarians and instructors see college students struggle with evaluating information and wonder how to best teach source evaluation in a one-time course integrated library research session to ensure understanding and improve student performance. This research compared multiple sections of first-year students over two semesters taught two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Sources, Evaluation Methods, College Freshmen
Tania Josephine Martin; Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez; Robiert Sepúlveda-Torres; José Ignacio Abreu Salas – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2025
The spread of fake news (FN) has attracted attention from disciplines ranging from social sciences to Artificial Intelligence. This work is novel because it explores the news-sharing behaviour of social-media users, focussing on those that spread FN, rather than the psychological motivations behind them. The 14-item Risky News-Sharing Quotient…
Descriptors: Deception, News Reporting, Misinformation, Intervention
Stadler, Derek; Rojas, Alexandra; Perrenod, William; Keyes, Charles – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2021
Librarians at a community college in New York City identified that, unassisted, undergraduate students often find it difficult to categorize the various information formats they are locating and citing, such as a newspaper article, a book, a scholarly article, a blog or wiki entry, or a reference source. Due to their untrained approach defining…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Library Instruction, Teaching Methods
Gaultney, Ira Bruce; Sherron, Todd; Boden, Carrie – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022
Today's college students grew up with digital news media and social media readily available on their smartphones. As a result, students are likely to use their smartphones to access the news through social media where partisan misinformation is easily spread. Efforts to combat the spread of misinformation on social media are being explored on…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Media Literacy, Undergraduate Students, Social Media
Pilgrim, Jodi; Vasinda, Sheri; Bledsoe, Christie; Martinez, Elda – Reading Teacher, 2019
The ability to analyze and evaluate online sources for credibility continues to be a universal concern. In a 2006 study by the University of Connecticut, seventh graders lacked the ability to discredit a hoax website about a tree octopus. Using the same website in this qualitative study, 68 elementary students shared rationales about the source's…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Information Sources, Reliability, Credibility
Barsch, Sebastian – History Education Research Journal, 2020
Educational videos are becoming increasingly important for schools. More and more often, students consume videos on YouTube in order to carry out school tasks. At the same time, the digital world is increasingly influencing perceptions of history. The internet contains numerous examples of how history is instrumentalized. Counterfeiting and…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Grade 7, History Instruction, Story Telling
Engelen, Eva; Budke, Alexandra – Journal of Information Literacy, 2020
Many teachers hesitate to integrate internet research into their lessons as they face major uncertainties concerning their students' competencies in retrieving, evaluating and processing digital information. Understanding complex geographical conflicts using the internet poses special challenges to students, as they need to obtain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Internet, Student Research
Angell, Katelyn; Tewell, Eamon – Communications in Information Literacy, 2017
This study details the design of library instruction sessions for undergraduate students that intended to encourage critical source evaluation and the questioning of established authorities, and appraises these instructional aims through a thematic analysis of 148 artifacts containing student responses to group and individual activities. The…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Library Instruction
Alexander, Stephanie; Wood, Lana Mariko – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
This mixed-methods study explores how the use of satirical news videos contributes to student engagement with information literacy (IL) instruction. The sample was drawn from first-year undergraduate students in for-credit IL courses. Overall, the use of satirical news videos improved student engagement with, and enjoyment of, IL topics. Given the…
Descriptors: Satire, News Media, Video Technology, Information Literacy
Cooper, Trudi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
Information discernment has become a much needed twenty-first century skill and an essential outcome for university education. Technology has enabled more organisations to gain access to effective mass media to disseminate both accurate information and disinformation. As information sources have proliferated, information users are confronted by a…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Credibility, Information Sources, Mass Media Effects
Glisson, Lane – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
This article describes a discussion-based approach for teaching college students to identify the characteristics of ethical journalism and scholarly writing, by comparing fake news with credible information in a strategically planned slideshow. Much has been written on the need to instruct our students about disinformation. This librarian shares a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Ethics, Journalism Education
Sorenson, Mary E. – Communication Teacher, 2016
Courses: Research Methods, Public Speaking, Communication Theory, any other course that requires college students to engage in a formal research process. Can be conducted in traditional, online, or hybrid courses. Objectives: In this original single-class activity, students will be able to evaluate source credibility for resources that extend…
Descriptors: Credibility, Information Literacy, College Students, Class Activities