APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Improving College Students’ Fact-Checking Strategies: An Efficacy Study in a General Education Course
- Jessica Brodsky
The Graduate Center, CUNY - Patricia Brooks
The College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY - Donna Scimeca
The College of Staten Island, CUNY - Ralitsa Todorova
Lehman College, CUNY - Peter Galati
The College of Staten Island, CUNY - Michael Batson
The College of Staten Island, CUNY - Robert Grosso
The College of Staten Island, CUNY - Michael Matthews
The College of Staten Island, CUNY - Victor Miller
The College of Staten Island, CUNY - Tracy Tachiera
Washington State University Vancouver - Michael Caulfield
Washington State University Vancouver
Abstract
College students in matched sections of a required general education course received embedded instruction on fact-checking online information (N=86) or traditional instruction (N=94). The fact-checking group showed significant gains in using external sources and Wikipedia to verify information. No gains in media-literacy knowledge or Wikipedia trust were observed.
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