Fostering teenagers' assessment of information reliability: Effects of a classroom intervention focused on critical source dimensions

Volume: 58, Pages: 53 - 64
Published: Dec 1, 2018
Abstract
Increased amounts of information available from the Internet have triggered new demands for students to evaluate information quality. Our study presents an instructional intervention aimed at fostering ninth grade students' critical evaluation of source reliability. The intervention was grounded into theories of multiple text comprehension and used an analytic framework that defines the core source dimensions of author position (competence),...
Paper Details
Title
Fostering teenagers' assessment of information reliability: Effects of a classroom intervention focused on critical source dimensions
Published Date
Dec 1, 2018
Volume
58
Pages
53 - 64
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