Can Students Evaluate Online Sources? Learning From Assessments of Civic Online Reasoning

By sarah mcgrew, Joel Breakstone, Teresa Ortega, Mark D. Smith, Sam Wineburg. 2018

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait (2021, methodology): “Rubric design was informed by prior research and development of Civic Online Reasoning assessments (McGrew et al., 2018; Wineburg et al., 2016).”
Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility (2019, methodology): “Civic online reasoning includes knowledge, skills and attitudes found in the social sciences and journalism in a digital world (McGrew et al., 2017, 2018).”
Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information (2019, background): “Civic online reasoning (McGrew et al., 2018) encompasses the ability to effectively search for, evaluate, and verify social and political information online; proficiency in online reasoning is necessary for citizens to use the Internet to inform their social and political choices.”
Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19 (2021, background): “People may not be able to accurately report their social media experiences (Junco, 2013), and recognizing misinformation requires knowledge of what is correct or incorrect, which is challenging for most people (McGrew et al., 2018).”
Credibility Perceptions and Detection Accuracy of Fake News Headlines on Social Media: Effects of Truth-Bias and Endorsement Cues (2020, background): “practitioners who should consider integrating the strategies about how to evaluate social endorsement cues into the curriculum of online credibility assessment, given its effectiveness on online reasoning among college students (McGrew et al., 2018).”
Fake news, disinformation and misinformation in social media: a review (2023, background): “…García et al. 2020) by encouraging people to pause to assess credibility of headlines (Fazio 2020), promote civic online reasoning (McGrew 2020; McGrew et al. 2018) and critical thinking (Lutzke et al. 2019), together with evaluations of credibility indicators (Bhuiyan et al. 2020; Nygren et…”