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Marttunen, Miika; Salminen, Timo; Utriainen, Jukka – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This study investigated upper secondary school students' skills in evaluating the credibility and argumentative content of a blog text and a YouTube video. Both sources concerned child vaccination, the blog text opposing and the YouTube video supporting it. Students rated each source as credible, fairly credible or non-credible, justified their…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Thinking Skills, Secondary School Students, Adolescents
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McGrew, Sarah; Byrne, Virginia L. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
Prior research suggests that high school students often struggle to evaluate online content; however, with support, they can learn to conduct more effective digital evaluations. This study extends our understanding of how students attend to the source of online information and the role instruction may play in changing students' evaluation of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Users (Information), Information Literacy