Undergraduate students' justifications for source selection in a digital academic context

A List, EM Grossnickle… - Journal of Educational …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
To complete any academic tasks using information from the Internet, undergraduate
students first have to select the appropriate sources. However, the types of justifications that …

Convenience or credibility? A study of college student online research behaviors

JP Biddix, CJ Chung, HW Park - The Internet and higher education, 2011 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to investigate where students turn for course-related
assignments, whether an ordered pattern could be described in terms of which sources …

Teaching students to evaluate source reliability during Internet research tasks

CA Sanchez, J Wiley, SR Goldman - 2006 - repository.isls.org
Despite the overwhelming use of the Internet as an educational/informational resource,
research has found that learners are woefully in need of guidance on how to use this …

Evaluating internet and scholarly sources across the disciplines: Two case studies

S Calkins, MR Kelley - College Teaching, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Although most college faculty expect their students to analyze Internet and scholarly sources
in a critical and responsible manner, recent research suggests that many undergraduates …

When do information seekers trust scientific information? Insights from recipients' evaluations of online video lectures

L König, R Jucks - International Journal of Educational Technology in …, 2019 - Springer
Since most of the Internet is not governed by editors, the validity of online information cannot
be guaranteed. Therefore, information seekers have to decide whether they should accept …

Students' abilities to evaluate the credibility of online texts: The role of internet‐specific epistemic justifications

EK Hämäläinen, C Kiili, E Räikkönen… - Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Previous evaluation studies have rarely used authentic online texts and investigated upper
secondary school students' use of evaluation criteria and deep reasoning. The associations …

Pre-service teachers' search strategies when sourcing educational information on the Internet

M Zimmermann, O Engel, E Mayweg-Paus - Frontiers in Education, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Teachers need to be able to inform and justify their teaching practice based on available
research knowledge. When searching for research knowledge, the Internet plays a crucial …

Truth be told: How college students evaluate and use information in the digital age

A Head, M Eisenberg - Available at SSRN 2281485, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
A report about college students and their information-seeking strategies and research
difficulties, including findings from 8,353 survey respondents from college students on 25 …

Why attend to source information when reading online? The perspective of ninth grade students from two different countries

J Paul, M Macedo-Rouet, JF Rouet, M Stadtler - Computers & Education, 2017 - Elsevier
Although information on the Web notoriously involves reliable and less reliable sources,
research has found that middle school students hardly ever attend to source information (eg …

Students evaluating Internet sources: From versatile evaluators to uncritical readers

C Kiili, L Laurinen, M Marttunen - Journal of Educational …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The Internet is a significant information resource for students due to the ease of access it
allows to a vast amount of information. As the quality of the information on the Internet varies …