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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
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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