What does more and less effective internet evaluation entail?: Investigating readers’ credibility judgments across content, source, and context

How Critical is Critical Enough: Forefronting Critical Consciousness When Engaging in Critical Online Reasoning and Evaluation (CORE)

“…The CORE framework also outlines four key principles for effective online evaluation (Forzani et al, 2022). These key principles are particularly important when evaluating with critical consciousness, as together, the four principles underscore the need for evaluating in critical, flexible, and nuanced ways.…”

“…In her discussion with the teachers planning their project about environmental justice, it quickly became clear in that discussion about how to support a population of largely students of color in conducting research on environmental justice issues—centering justice was about not just using CORE practices (Forzani, 2020; Forzani et al, 2022) and applying them in a critically conscious way so that students learn to take nuanced and complex views of the sources they are investigating, as well as how a justice‐minded approach plays into that same work.…”

“…Prior work in the area of online source evaluation has led to the proposal of a range of evaluation tools, such as checklists, mnemonics, or heuristics to move students stepwise through a source evaluation process. However, it appears that reducing processes in these ways can be ineffective at helping students become agentic evaluators of sources who can integrate new learning into their topical knowledge (Forzani, 2020; Forzani et al, 2022). Folding critical consciousness skills into frameworks for evaluating sources can deepen and expand the process students use to evaluate.…”

Pre-Service Teachers Evaluating Online Texts About Learning Styles: There is Room for Improvement in Justifying the Credibility

“…Finally, the present study was informed by a critical online resource evaluation framework (Forzani, 2020;Forzani et al, 2022) that complements the bidirectional model of first-and second-hand evaluation strategies (Barzilai, Thomm, et al, 2020) with tertiary evaluation strategies that emphasize the role of context in online evaluation. To critically evaluate texts, readers must have an understanding of a text's temporal, social, and political settings.…”

“…For example, various social practices, purposes, and conventions of online text genres are reflected in readers' perceptions of credibility (Flanagin & Metzger, 2007, List et al, 2017. Similar to Barzilai, Thomm, et al (2020), Forzani et al (2022) emphasized that effective evaluators triangulate information across the source, content, and context when drawing conclusions about the credibility of online texts.…”