Pre-service teachers evaluating online texts about learning styles : there is room for improvement in justifying the credibility
Kulju, P., Hämäläinen, E. K., Mäkinen, M., Räikkönen, E., & Kiili, C. (2024). Pre-service teachers evaluating online texts about learning styles : there is room for improvement in justifying the credibility. Frontiers in Education, 9, Article 1451002. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1451002
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Teachers’ abilities to critically evaluate the credibility of online information are fundamental when they educate critical online readers. This study examined pre-service teachers’ abilities to evaluate and justify the credibility of online texts on learning styles. Pre-service teachers (N = 169) read and evaluated two more and two less credible online texts on learning styles in a web-based environment. Most pre-service teachers were able to differentiate the more credible texts from the less credible ones but struggled with justifying the credibility. Pre-service teachers’ inaccurate prior beliefs about learning styles impeded questioning the less credible texts. Implications for teacher education are discussed.
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This work was supported by the Strategic Research Council (CRITICAL: Technological and Societal Innovations to Cultivate Critical Reading in the Internet Era: No. 335625, 335727, 358490, 358250) and the Research Council of Finland (No. 324524).License
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