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Sinatra, Gale M.; Lombardi, Doug – Educational Psychologist, 2020
When individuals have questions about scientific issues, they often search the Internet. Evaluating sources of information and claims they find has become more difficult in the post-truth era. Students are often taught source evaluation techniques, but the proliferation of "fake news" has resulted in a misinformation arms race. As…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources, Evidence, Internet
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Delgado, Pablo; Stang Lund, Elisabeth; Salmerón, Ladislao; Bråten, Ivar – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study investigated whether accessing conflicting claims in other documents by means of hyperlinks embedded within currently read documents may facilitate conflict detection and source-content integration. Norwegian undergraduates (n = 85) read multiple conflicting documents on a controversial health-related issue, with half of the conflicting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Hypermedia, Prompting
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Bobkowski, Piotr S.; Younger, Karna – College & Research Libraries, 2020
This paper discusses the development of a source evaluation assessment, and presents the results of using this instrument in a one-semester information literacy course for journalism students. The assessment was developed using the threshold concept perspective, the "authority is constructed and contextual" frame, and an established…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Evaluation Methods, Journalism Education, Scoring Rubrics
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Grossnickle Peterson, Emily; Alexander, Patricia A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
Academic tasks frequently require students to effectively process multiple sources across print and digital mediums. Yet, studies of multiple source use have almost exclusively confined examinations to a single medium. In the present study, undergraduate students (n = 50) wore a head-mounted video camera while developing a PowerPoint presentation…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Media Selection, Information Sources, Printed Materials
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Jarkovská, Lucie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2020
As a part of education fostering diversity, human rights and gender equality, sex education has proved an ideal target for disinformation. This article offers an analysis of articles on sex education published between 2007 and 2016 on pro-Russian websites in Czech and Slovak. The extreme and manipulated representations of sex education on these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Web Sites, Political Attitudes
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Reed, Katherine; Walsh-Childers, Kim; Fischer, Kenneth; Davie, Bill – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2020
The practice of journalism has long been based on the premise that a receptive audience awaits the content and that citizens--as participants in a democracy--will use the news to make sound decisions. Yet mainstream journalism has lost much of its audience to purveyors of disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation, a situation that has…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Journalism Education, Audiences, Deception
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Florit, Elena; Cain, Kate; Mason, Lucia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Children's comprehension of single texts relies on both foundational and higher-level skills. These are also assumed to support multiple-document comprehension, but their relative importance has not been examined, to date. Multiple-document comprehension additionally requires the identification and use of information about each…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Children, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Karla A. Giese – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The development of language in a deaf or hard of hearing child is dependent upon early and effective communication access (Marschark, 2018; Marschark & Hauser, 2012; Pittman, Sass-Lehrer, & Abrams, 2016; Scott & Dostal, 2019; Scott & Henner, 2020). For many parents of deaf and hard of hearing children, the most common early…
Descriptors: Deafness, Communication (Thought Transfer), Early Intervention, Students with Disabilities
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Roach-Freiman, Ashley – Communications in Information Literacy, 2021
BEAM is a schema for categorizing the rhetorical positions of authors according to the author's intention or purpose of the information. This Innovative Practices piece critiques common methods of teaching source evaluation and proposes that instruction librarians teach BEAM to students who may struggle using a source once they have located it. A…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Rhetoric, Authors, Information Sources
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Kalin, Özlem Ulu; Koçoglu, Erol – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
Due to globalization and the impact of industrialization and urbanization, natural resources are wasted, and popular consumption leads to environmental waste. The problem of waste that deteriorates individual and social life is a prominent current issue. Recycling, described as the remanufacturing, production and employment of collected material,…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Preservice Teachers, Recycling, Knowledge Level
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Lambert, Frank; Thill, Mary; Rosenzweig, James W. – College & Research Libraries, 2021
In a follow-up to a pilot study published in 2019, the authors collected student research papers from English Composition II courses at three public comprehensive universities from different regions in the United States to classify and compare the sources selected by students at each institution. Working with a representative sample of 712…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Bibliographies, Credibility, Information Sources
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Cerdán, Raquel; Máñez, Ignacio; Serrano-Mendizábal, Marian – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
The current information society requires people to handle information from different sources, which entails specific skills beyond those needed to comprehend and use information from a single text. Given the relevance of becoming a competent reader in functional reading scenarios, it is crucial to examine how contextual-, task-, and…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, History Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Information Literacy
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Campana, Kathleen – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to offer insights into the presence and nature of an information environment provided for young children to support their learning and explore how an information environment for young children can be characterized. Design/methodology/approach: Observations of video-recorded public library storytimes were used to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Information Dissemination, Educational Environment, Learning
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Adedeji, Elizabeth; Mabawonku, Iyabo – Africa Education Review, 2021
Effective use of information resources by lecturers is one of the determinants of university education outcomes. To function optimally, lecturers utilise digitised information resources in their duties. University libraries are saddled with the responsibility of organising and providing lecturers' needed information resources. This study,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Information Sources
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Chad E. Buckley; Rachel E. Scott; Anne Shelley; Cassie Thayer-Styes; Julie A. Murphy – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study reports faculty experiences regarding the discovery of scholarly content, highlighting similarities and differences across a range of academic disciplines. The authors interviewed twenty-five faculty members at a public, high-research university in the Midwest to explore the intersections of discovery, browsing, and format from diverse…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Scholarship, Writing (Composition), Periodicals
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