ERIC Number: EJ1429348
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0163-853X
EISSN: EISSN-1532-6950
Whom to Believe? Fostering Source Evaluation Skills with Interleaved Presentation of Untrustworthy and Trustworthy Social Media Sources
Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, v61 n4-5 p233-254 2024
We investigated how the sequence of presenting social media sources in an unsupervised inductive learning setting supports the acquisition of source evaluation skills in two different age groups. Participants were 63 upper and 59 lower secondary students. They had to identify characteristics of trustworthiness while studying sources labeled as trustworthy and "un"trustworthy presented in one of two ways: interleaved (alternating sequence) or blocked (without alternation). Upper secondary students recognized "expertise" and "benevolence" as key source characteristics earlier than their younger counterparts and discerned more reliably between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources. Interleaving fostered upper secondary students' ability to recognize benevolence and elevated their trust in and use intention for trustworthy sources. This was reflected in higher perceived learning scores. For lower secondary students, unsupervised inductive learning resulted in low discernment scores, irrespective of sequence. Recognizing benevolence based on professional affiliations is particularly difficult for younger students with low social media experience.
Descriptors: Information Sources, Evaluation Criteria, Skill Development, Credibility, Social Media, Information Literacy, Secondary School Students, Age Differences, Grade 11, Grade 7, Foreign Countries, Expertise, Logical Thinking
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; Grade 11; High Schools; Elementary Education; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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