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Alessandro Siani; Maria Joseph; Claudiu Dacin – Discover Education, 2024
In the current post-truth era, the ability to assess the reliability of information is an essential citizenship attribute. With nearly half of the present internet traffic estimated to be generated by bots, and misinformation being regularly weaponised by numerous parties for economic or political gain, it is imperative that citizens are equipped…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Misinformation, Secondary School Students, Science Education
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Lucas, Amanda J.; Lewis, Charlie; Pala, F. Cansu; Wong, Katie; Berridge, Damon – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Research on preschoolers' selective learning has mostly been conducted in English-speaking countries. We compared the performance of Turkish preschoolers (who are exposed to a language with evidential markers), Chinese preschoolers (known to be advanced in executive skills), and English preschoolers on an extended selective trust task (N = 144).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Comparative Analysis
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Veloutsou, Cleopatra; Paton, Robert A.; Lewis, John – International Journal of Educational Management, 2005
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the information sources used by school leavers when selecting a university at which they wish to study and the perceived reliability of these sources of information. Design/methodology/approach: Using data from 306 pupils studying at various schools in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland it was revealed that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Applicants, Information Sources, Foreign Countries