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Raoul Bell; Lena Nadarevic; Laura Mieth; Axel Buchner – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2025
In present-day digital environments, people frequently encounter content from sources of questionable trustworthiness. Advertising is an untrustworthy source because its purpose is to persuade consumers rather than to provide impartial information. One factor known to enhance the perceived truth of advertising claims is repetition: Repeated…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Literacy, Critical Literacy, Credibility
Colin Lescarret; Julien Magnier; Valérie Le Floch; Jean-Christophe Sakdavong; Jean-Michel Boucheix; Franck Amadieu – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
In this study, we investigated the impact of prompting on young students' source consideration when watching videos with conflicting information. 262 French 7th graders were shown a series of videos in which two speakers (varying in credibility) took opposite stances on the topic of organic farming. The students were either given no prompts…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Credibility, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Daniel R. Pimentel – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Students frequently turn to the internet for information about a range of scientific issues. However, they can find it challenging to evaluate the credibility of the information they find, which may increase their susceptibility to mis- and disinformation. This exploratory study reports findings from an instructional intervention designed to teach…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Evaluative Thinking, Internet, Science Process Skills
Ilic, Sandra; Damnjanovic, Kaja – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2021
Pseudo-profound bullshit pertains to grammatically and syntactically correct but meaningless sentences, that, due to syntactical correctness appear as made to communicate something and research shows that people deem them profound. However, the effect of differing source credibility on bullshit profoundness evaluations has, to our knowledge, not…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Credibility, Syntax, Proverbs
Vamanu, Iulian; Zak, Elizabeth – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: Learning how to identify and avoid inaccurate information, especially disinformation, is essential for any informational consumer. Many information literacy tools specify criteria that can help users evaluate information more efficiently and effectively. However, the authors of these tools do not always agree on which criteria should be…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Literacy, Evaluative Thinking, Evaluation Criteria
Woolley, Jacqueline D.; Nissel, Jenny; Gilpin, Ansley T. – Child Development, 2021
Verbal testimony about reality status is critical but often contradictory. These studies address whom children consider reliable sources of information about reality and how they evaluate conflicting testimony. In Study 1, seventy 4- to 8-year-olds heard an adult or child provide testimony about how to cook food and use toys, and about the reality…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Information Sources, Evaluative Thinking
Bell, Raoul; Mieth, Laura; Buchner, Axel – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022
Consumers are exposed to large amounts of advertising every day. One way to avoid being manipulated is to monitor the sources of persuasive messages. In the present study it was tested whether high exposure to advertising affects the memory and guessing processes underlying source attributions. Participants were exposed to high or low proportions…
Descriptors: Coping, Advertising, Information Sources, Memory
Sarah McGrew; Joel Breakstone – AERA Open, 2023
Given the current threat posed by toxic digital content, preparing students to evaluate online sources cannot be relegated to a single subject area--this instruction should happen across the curriculum. This article focuses on materials designed to teach students to evaluate online information across subject areas. ninth-grade biology and world…
Descriptors: Civics, Digital Literacy, Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources
Forzani, Elena – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2020
Recently, many have released calls for the need to help students evaluate online information. Additionally, many have offered strategies, lists, and other heuristics for helping students evaluate. However, educators lack a method for organizing these various practices into a systematic framework that captures the complex (occurring within online…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Literacy, Evaluative Thinking, Online Searching
Macedo-Rouet, M.; Trópia, G.; Castilhos, W.; Massarani, L.; Brasil, V.; Almeida, C. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
Sourcing is the ability to evaluate information by analysing source parameters such as author's expertise on a given topic. Past research, mostly based on school-related materials and tasks, shows that adolescents do not pay attention to source parameters when evaluating online scientific information. However, recent research has suggested that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources
Lescarret, Colin; Magnier, Julien; Le Floch, Valérie; Sakdavong, Jean-Christophe; Boucheix, Jean-Michel; Tricot, André; Amadieu, Franck – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
The purpose of this study was to better understand how middle school students consider the source of information when processing videos with conflicting information. To this end, we exposed a sample of seventh-graders to a series of videos in which two interviewees expressed divergent positions on a socioscientific issue ('Will organic farming be…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Video Technology, Information Processing
Sinatra, Gale M.; Lombardi, Doug – Educational Psychologist, 2020
When individuals have questions about scientific issues, they often search the Internet. Evaluating sources of information and claims they find has become more difficult in the post-truth era. Students are often taught source evaluation techniques, but the proliferation of "fake news" has resulted in a misinformation arms race. As…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources, Evidence, Internet
Holincheck, Nancy; Galanti, Terrie M.; Trefil, James – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
The evolving digital world requires scientifically literate citizens who are able to critically evaluate Internet sources of varying credibility. Instruction on evidence evaluation in postsecondary education often focuses on peer-review as a singular indicator of credibility. With increased access to web-based scientific information, students must…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Scientific Literacy, Computation, Thinking Skills
Wertgen, Andreas G.; Richter, Tobias; Rouet, Jean-François – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined the role of source credibility in the validation of factual information embedded in short narratives. In a self-paced reading experiment, we tested the assumption that the degree of (im-)plausibility determines the extent that source credibility affects validation during comprehension. We used reading times of target and…
Descriptors: Credibility, Information Sources, Expertise, Validity
McGrew, Sarah – Computers in the Schools, 2021
This study investigated how high school students evaluated online information on social and political topics. Eighteen juniors and seniors, at a school that attempts to leverage technology to personalize learning, thought aloud as they completed online reasoning tasks. Three themes emerged from analyses of think-aloud data. First, students…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Information Literacy, Evaluative Thinking, Web Sites