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DOI	10.1002/sce.21855
	Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media
	Kresin, Soraya; Kremer, Kerstin; Buessing, Alexander Georg
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0036-8326
EISSN	1098-237X
起始页码	108
结束页码	3
卷号	108 期号:3
英文摘要	The rise of social media platforms and the subsequent lack of traditional gatekeeping mechanisms contribute to the multiplied spread of scientific misinformation. Particularly in these new media spaces, there is a rising need for science education in fostering a science media literacy that enables students to evaluate the credibility of scientific information. A key determinant of a successful credibility evaluation is the effectiveness of the criteria students apply in this process. However, research suggests that existing credibility criteria are often not integrated into students' actual social media evaluation behavior. This hints to a lack of transferability of the existing criteria. As a consequence, knowledge about how learners evaluate credibility in social media is a first step in closing this gap. In the present study, we report results from six focus groups with 21 10th-grade students (M = 15 years, 57% female, 38% male, 5% nonbinary) about their usage of different credibility criteria in the case of social media posts about climate change. The data were analyzed through qualitative content analysis and as a first step assigned to established credibility dimensions of content (what?) and source-related criteria (who?). Additionally, given the complexity of social media, we also added a composition-based category (how?). In a second analysis step, we adapted our subcategories to the recently proposed credibility heuristic by Osborne and Pimentel. The findings suggest that students generally take criteria from all three heuristic credibility dimensions into account and combine different criteria when evaluating the credibility of scientific information in social media. Based on the application of the credibility criteria to the heuristic, implications for the development of teaching materials for fostering science media literacy are discussed.
英文关键词	credibility; science media literacy; scientific information; social media; students' conceptions
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Education & Educational Research
WOS类目	Education & Educational Research
WOS记录号	WOS:001145415800001
来源期刊	SCIENCE EDUCATION
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/289529
作者单位	Leibniz University Hannover; Justus Liebig University Giessen; Braunschweig University of Technology; Leibniz University Hannover
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kresin, Soraya,Kremer, Kerstin,Buessing, Alexander Georg. Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media[J],2024,108(3).
APA	Kresin, Soraya,Kremer, Kerstin,&Buessing, Alexander Georg.(2024).Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media.SCIENCE EDUCATION,108(3).
MLA	Kresin, Soraya,et al."Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media".SCIENCE EDUCATION 108.3(2024).