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Today’s Agenda/Goals Journal: Credibility and Accuracy

Research Credibility & Accuracy = ETHOS

Goal: Practice locating quality information while researching.

Goal: Practice critically analyzing research so that you can determine if it is credible, accurate, and relevant.

Journal: Credibility and Accuracy

• Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Remember to restate the question in your answer!

1. What makes you think that a website is credible or accurate?

2. What makes you think that a website is not credible or accurate?

3. How are credibility and accuracy different?

Cornell Notes

Todays Topic:Ethos: Credibility

Essential Question:Why is establishing

credibility an essential part of research?

Credibility vs. AccuracyRR&D NOTES

Make sure you have these definitions!

§ Credibility: The quality of being believable or trustworthy (related to Ethos!).

§ Accuracy: Being right, correct, exact, or

precise.

§ Can you be one without the other?

§ If so, give an example…

Wikipedia?!RR&D NOTES

Wikipedia Documentary Video 7:00

In your RR&D NOTES What are acceptable/unacceptable situations or

reasons to use Wikipedia while researching?

Wikipedia for ResearchAcceptable Unacceptable

1.

2.

3.

1.

2.

3.

Interviews Experts Witnesses Must have credibility!

Surveys www.polleverywhere.com Facebook Google Form Paper At least 30-50 people!

Observation Data Can be made into statistics, graphs

A A Primary SourcePrimary Source is a document which was  is a document which was written or created during the time under study.written or created during the time under study.

Student-Student-Driven Driven

Research Research (SDR)(SDR)

RRD NOTES!

A A Secondary SourceSecondary Source interprets and analyzes  interprets and analyzes primary sources.primary sources.

Internet Websites Textbooks Encyclopedias Documentaries Videos Magazine Articles Critiques and Reviews Histories

All of these might have quotes, images, etc. from primary sources in them!

RRD NOTES!

Click on the Icon to play the video

Locating & Accessing Information

Search Engines Search Engines (i.e. Google) (i.e. Google)

• Pull up every single thing that anyone has ever posted on the internet that is even slightly associated with your topic.

• Huge amounts of information.

• Not guaranteed to be credible.

• Free, no password needed

Search Overload

Academic Databases (i.e. SIRS, InfoTrac)

• Pull up only articles printed in proven credible publications such as magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals.

• Smaller selection.

• Guaranteed credible.

• Need a subscription (costs $$)

• Need a username and password

Search EnginesTools, Tips, & Tricks

Scholarly, more credible and accurate sources than just websites. More like an academic database.

Careful about credibility & accuracy!

Google > More

Terms Found in ResearchRR&D Notes

Probability: a measure of how likely it

is that some event will occur

Statistics: data that can be

represented numerically Proportion:

A part in relation to its whole1 piece of an 8 slice

pizzaa half of a pie

Approximate:estimate

Average/Mean:Add up all results,

divide by total # Median:

Result in the middle (Equal # above and below it)

Mode:# that occurs most

often

•use your brain

evaluate websites!

When you are researching…

Authority & Bias

One of the most important features to evaluate when researching!

“Who is the author of the information?” WRONG: There is no “author” so I can skip

this part. RIGHT: What organization created this site?

What does it believe? Are they credible? Are they biased? Does biased necessarily mean not accurate?

RADCAB Sheet

Used to evaluate Bias, Authority and Credibility

Reminder: You must evaluate 1 credible web site and fill out a RADCAB form as proof for the research part of your project!

Independent Practiceaka Homework

1. Find a website about YOUR debate topic. Print out pages that you think you will use for your research

2. Complete the RADCAB sheet, including the two summary questions, for the website of your choice to determine its credibility.

Do NOT use Wikipedia for this assignment!Do NOT use Wikipedia for this assignment!

Project RemindersRequired to have 4 TOTAL

SOURCES for the Research Part of the project.1 Student-Driven Research Source

Expert interview, survey, observation data, etc.

1 Article from a DatabaseSirs, GALE databaseUsernames and passwords on poster &

on desktops1 Credible Website

You must RADCAB at least one website, too!

1 Additional Source: Pick 1Another website or database article,

video, podcast, etc.

Save and actively read by PRINTING

Show me your survey questions and results; interview questions and answers, etc.

Surveys…

For the SDR source, you will show your survey questions and results.Surveys: consider making a chart or pie graph to show

your resultsBest survey results are ANONYMOUS

Type up your survey question and allow people to answer on paper

No hand-raising or questioning of reasons!!Consider Advisory: Ask 2 teachers if they will allow you

to give your survey question during their advisoryOnly question 8th and 9th grade classes

The 6/7th graders are too young for these topics

Surveys

Try www.polleverywhere.comCreate an accountType in your question

To turn in results to meDo a “print screen” and print the page of results. You

can save the image and use it later in your VoiceThread recording.

Or you can print slips and pass them out, use surveymonkey.com, use facebook.

Interviews

You must have interview notes or a typed script to document your interview

I recommend recording your interview and taking notes afterwardsIt is not possible to upload your interview to

Voicethread…you will quote it as a source

Homework

KEEP researching!Complete your RADCAB sheet for your

World Wide Website source Complete Cornell questions column from

today’s notes.ALL research due next weekRemember to PRINT ALL sources!

Lesson Summary

1. What's more important – accuracy or credibility? Explain.

2. What are three features you can check to evaluate the credibility of a website?