Social Studies Teacher Perceptions of News Source Credibility

Clark, Christopher H.; Schmeichel, Mardi; Garrett, H. James

doi:10.3102/0013189x20909823

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“…It should be kept in mind that a postgraduate programme has given an additional competence to an undergraduate degree, but it does not replace it, so that, it is not only the teacher's postgraduate degree important, his or her entire training background should determine which area of knowledge should be assigned him/her to work in. As a result, faculties will gradually generate the teaching staff, according to an appropriate academic management of the faculty, proposes [32].…”

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Planning and Strategic Management of Higher Education Considering the Vision of Latin America

Inga

Cardenas

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Education Sciences

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Nowadays, many universities are employing metrics that are used by other countries as the focus moves towards academic management. A shared vision and collaboration is required to identify success cases. Leaders at senior and middle management need to be guided by a road map to get a clear vision, a list of different strategies and successful outcomes. Consequently, this article proposes an academic management strategy to guarantee student-centred education. This strategy has an emphasis on hierarchical process in layers, in order to optimise and achieve efficiency, reliability and resilience. In this paper, the “what”, “ how” and “where” are taken into account in order to respond to academic and administrative adjustments which are necessary to reduce the risk of investment in training and formation of human capital, which warns about the need to acquire knowledge, especially from countries with scientific expertise. It is also shown the indicators that motivate the effort based on the merit that human capital produces. A methodology of flipped learning or blended learning is applied to presume a human capital that is able to break down barriers, such as: English as a universal language. A bibliometric analysis has been based over 2000 scientific articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. So It was possible to identify countries, universities and researchers specifically for each area of knowledge based on the results of this analysis. Besides, university careers can even be validated according to the development and scientific interest that is presented by the bibliometric analysis, which could be compared with studies based on economics and wealth from sources such as Forbes.

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Planning and Strategic Management of Higher Education Considering the Vision of Latin America

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Education Sciences

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“…Psychological research on adults finds that individuals prefer news that agrees with their political or ideological views (Iyengar & Hahn, 2009) and that evaluations of news quality tend to depend on how favorable/unfavorable stories are to the reader's preferred group (Kelly, 2019). Previous research has found that teachers' evaluation of a news source's credibility is related to their perceived ideological similarity with the source (Clark et al, 2020). Given these results, it is likely that teachers are influenced in some way by ideology when they choose what news media they use in their classroom.…”

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“…Among the small group of teachers who reported using this website, those who identified their ideology labeled themselves "very conservative." Breitbart is an unreliable news source because it does not meet standards of journalistic ethics, but it is likely that teachers who use Breitbart in their classrooms find it acceptable because it aligns with their personal political views (Clark et al, 2020;Kelly, 2019).…”

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“…The influence of ideology on information exposure is characteristic of truth decay in that ideological positioning influences individuals' determination of what is truthful and what is fake. To address this concern, we assert that news media literacy ought to become a central feature of social studies education at the secondary level as well as in preservice and in-service teacher education (Clark et al, 2020;Garrett et al, 2020;Schmeichel et al, 2018). We recommend encouraging practitioners to explicitly consider the ideological reputations of news sources when teaching current events and to foreground the value of including multiple sources in an effort to integrate news media literacy into their curricula.…”

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How Social Studies Teachers Choose News Resources for Current Events Instruction

Clark

Schmeichel

Garrett³

2021

Harvard Educational Review

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Integrating current events and news media in the curriculum is essential to social studies teachers’ efforts to promote critical citizenship skills. In this mixed-methods study, Christopher H. Clark, Mardi Schmeichel, and H. James Garrett draw from a survey of more than one thousand social studies teachers to examine factors that influence the frequency of teachers’ current events instruction and their choices of news resources for use in their classes. They found that respondents’ ideologies influenced the number and type of sources they preferred and that teachers listed student-focused reasons like reading accessibility more than news-focused criteria like in-depth reporting as reasons for their choices. These findings have significant consequences for researchers and teacher educators who must find ways to help teachers discard assumptions that news sources are neutral or without perspective. The authors maintain that if teachers are to help students develop the ability to interpret news media within a complicated political and informational landscape, they must be better prepared to think critically about the news sources they incorporate into their lessons.

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“…It seems that the majority of the students are more willing to use Internet search engines than library catalogues. Additionally, it can be difficult for student teachers to evaluate the trustworthiness of the information they find online (Clark et al, 2020;Sawyer & Myers, 2018). Student teachers, therefore, need support to develop strategies for online search and navigation (Clark et al, 2020).…”

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“I just Google it” - Developing professional digital competence and preparing student teachers to exercise responsible ICT use

Guðmundsdóttir

Hatlevik

2020

NJCIE

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The rapid emergence of information and communication technology (ICT) has had implications for the education system and initial teacher education (ITE) in particular. This study investigated the extent to which teacher education assists student teachers in developing their professional digital competence (PDC) in general and, more specifically, their competence in using ICT responsibly. Responsible use of ICT is here taken to include privacy and copyright issues, ethical issues and the ability to evaluate digital information. To explore Norwegian student teachers’ perspectives, awareness and experience of the responsible use of ICT, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 student teachers before their practice placements at local schools and with six students after their practice placements. Overall, the findings indicate that the student teachers mostly knew how to search for and evaluate digital information, but that they tended to choose the most convenient approach for search and evaluation. Further, it seems that the student teachers were aware to some extent of how to avoid advertisements, marketing or inappropriate content when using online resources in the classroom. However, they had limited competence in dealing with privacy and copyright issues in a teaching setting. One of the challenges identified through this study is that, during practice placements, the attention seems to be on the technical aspects of ICT rather than on pedagogical or responsible ways of using ICT. The study concludes that teacher education programmes need to include responsible use of ICT as an integral part of their programme, as well as during student teachers’ practice placements in schools, rather than providing stand-alone activities or courses of limited duration.

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Social Studies Teacher Perceptions of News Source Credibility

Cited by 23 publications

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Planning and Strategic Management of Higher Education Considering the Vision of Latin America

Planning and Strategic Management of Higher Education Considering the Vision of Latin America

How Social Studies Teachers Choose News Resources for Current Events Instruction

“I just Google it” - Developing professional digital competence and preparing student teachers to exercise responsible ICT use

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