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Do You Trust This Speaker? The Impact of Prompting on Middle-School Students' Consideration of Source When Watching Conflicting Videos
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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
"Because I Agree with Him": The Impact of Middle-School Students' Prior Attitude on The Evaluation of Source Credibility When Watching Videos
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Colin Lescarret; Julien Magnier; Valérie Le Floch; Jean-Christophe Sakdavong; Jean-Michel Boucheix; Franck Amadieu – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of young students' prior attitude on source consideration when watching videos on controversial topics. Two hundred seventy-one seventh graders watched a series of videos in which two interviewees (one expert in the field, one layperson) expressed divergent positions on a socioscientific issue…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Credibility, Video Technology