Exploring early adolescents’ evaluation of academic and commercial online resources related to health

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Using Internet videos to learn about controversies: Evaluation and integration of multiple and multimodal documents by primary school students

“…To isolate variance resulting from our experimental manipulation, we controlled for the potential effects of school, reading comprehension skills, prior knowledge, and interest in the topic because prior studies indicate that they may be linked to the evaluation and integration of multiple documents in early adolescence (e.g., Kiili, Leu, Marttunen, Hautala, & Leppänen, 2018;Macedo-Rouet et al, 2013;Paul et al, 2018).…”

“…However, when students were presented with the controversy by means of two videos, the number of students defending the expert view in their responses almost doubled the number defending the commercial view. This effect is surprising, given that young students struggle to identify commercial information from the Internet as incredible, at least when it is presented in text (Kiili, Leu, Marttunen, et al, 2018).…”

“…Omnibus analyses revealed no differences between conditions in the number of single-idea paraphrases or the total number of inferences in the responses. Topic interest positively predicted the inclusion of single-idea paraphrases, and reading comprehension skills predicted the inclusion of inferences (Kiili, Leu, Marttunen et al, 2018;Paul et al, 2018). Critical to testing the competing predictions was the planned comparison between the conditions that presented the controversy in one modality, text or video.…”

Literacy skills and online research and comprehension: struggling readers face difficulties online

“…First, evaluation of information was divided into two components: confirming the credibility of information, and questioning the credibility of information. It seems that questioning a source that is, for example, biased or lacking in expertise, is more difficult for students than confirming the credibility of the source with relevant expertise (Kiili, Leu, Marttunen, Hautala, & Leppänen, 2018a;Pérez et al 2018). Second, synthesizing was divided into two separate components: identifying main ideas from a single online text, and synthesizing information across multiple online texts.…”

“…Finally, the students were asked to compose an email to the principal, in which they justified their opinion concerning the purchase of the energy drink vending machine. [For a more detailed description of the ILA test and the content of the online resources, see Kiili et al (2018aKiili et al ( , 2018b. The scoring rubric for the measured skills can be found in the Appendix.…”