High school students' critical evaluation of scientific resources on the world wide web

Journal of Science Education and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-173

  Bos, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical evaluation; Critical thinking; Digital library; Project based science; Social filtering; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044234448     PISSN: 10590145     EISSN: 15731839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009426107434     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Alexander, J., and Tate, M. (1996). Checklist for an informational Web page. Wolfgang Memorial Library: Widener University, [on-line]. http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/inform.htm
2. Blumenfeld, P. C., Soloway, E., Marx, R. W., Krajcik, J. S., Guzdial, M., and Palincsar, A. (1991). Motivating project-based learning: Sustaining the doing, supporting the learning. Educational Psychologist 26(3 & 4): 369-398.
3. Bos, N. D. (in press). Giving back to the Web: Social filtering of scientific World Wide Web resources in high school science. Journal of Science Education and Technology.
4. Bos, N. D. (1997). Student publishing in a digital library: value-added contributions. In E. Soloway (Symposium chair) Using online digital resources to support sustained inquiry learning in K-12 science. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Il, April. ERIC ED 408579
5. Bos, N. D., Krajcik, J. S., and Soloway, E. (1997). Student publishing in a digital library: goals and instructional supports. In Bell, P. (Symposium chair) Artifact-building in computer learning environments: supporting students' scientific inquiry. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Il, March 24-28 1997. ERIC ED 408580
6. Bos, N. D. (1998). Affordances of students using the World Wide Web as a publishing medium in project-based science learning environments. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [On-line] http://www-personal.si. umich.edu/∼serp/work/
7. Brown, A. L. and Day, J. D. (1983). Macrorules for summarizing texts: the development of expertise. Journal of verbal learning and verbal behaviors 22: 1-14.
8. Callison, D. (1993). Expanding the evaluation role in the critical thinking curriculum. In Goodin, M. E., and McNally, M. J. (Eds.), School Library Media Annual 11. Libraries Unlimited, Inc., Englewood, Calif.
9. Cunningham, S. J. (1997). Teaching students to critically evaluate the quality of Internet research resources. SIGCSE Bulletin 29(2).
10. Engle, M. (1997). Evaluating Web sites: criteria and tools. Reference Division, Olin-Kroch-Uris Libraries, Cornell University. [On-line] http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/helper. cgi?helper=/newhelp/toc.html
11. Grassian, E. (1995). Thinking critically about World Wide Web resources. UCLA College Library. [On-line] http://www. library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/ instruct/web/critical.htm
12. Kintsch, W., and van Dijk, T. A. (1978). Toward a model of text comprehension and production. Psychological Review 85: 363-394.
13. Kuhn, D.L. (1991). The Skills of Argument. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
14. Marchionini, G. (1995). Information seeking in electronic environments. Cambridge University Press, New York.
15. National Research Council (1995). National Science Education Standards Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. [On-line] http://www.nap.edu/ readingroom/records/ 0309053269.html
16. Palincsar, A. S. and Brown, A. L. (1984). Reciprocal teaching of comprehension-fostering and comprehension-monitoring activities. Cognition and Instruction 1(2): 117-175.
17. Pitts, J. M. (1994). Personal understandings and mental models of information: A qualitative study of factors associated with the information-seeking and use of adolescents. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Florida State University.
18. Pressley, M., and Afflerbach, P. (1995). Verbal Protocols of Reading, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.
19. Ranney, M., Schank, P., Hoadley, C., and Neff, J. (1994). "I know one when I see one": How (much) do hypotheses differ from evidence? In Proceedings of the 5th annual American Society for Information Science Workshop on Classification Research, 139-156.
20. Smith, A. G. (1997). Testing the surf: criteria for evaluating Internet information resources. The Public Access Computer System Review 8(3). [On-line] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/ n3/smit8n3.html
21. Wallace, R., and Kupperman, J. (1997). Online search in the science classroom. In E. Soloway (Symposium chair.), Using online digital resources to support sustained inquiry learning in K-12 science classrooms. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Il, March, 1997. ERIC ED 407252