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Please turn in parent permission slips, if you haven’t already!. Today’s Agenda/Goals. Journal: Credibility and Accuracy Research Credibility & Accuracy = ETHOS Goal : Practice locating quality information while researching.
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Please turn in parent permission slips, if you haven’t already!
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! • What makes you think that a website is credible or accurate? • What makes you think that a website is not credible or accurate? • 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 yourRR&D NOTES • What are acceptable/unacceptable situations or reasons to use Wikipedia while researching?
A Primary Source is a document which was written or created during the time under study. Student-Driven Research (SDR) 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 RRD NOTES!
A Secondary Source interprets and analyzes 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!
Locating & Accessing Information Academic Databases (i.e. SIRS, InfoTrac) • Pull up only articles printed in provencredible publications such as magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals. • Smaller selection. • Guaranteed credible. • Need a subscription (costs $$) • Need a username and password Search Engines (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
Google > More Search EnginesTools, Tips, & Tricks Careful about credibility & accuracy! Scholarly, more credible and accurate sources than just websites. More like an academic database.
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 whole 1 piece of an 8 slice pizza a 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 Terms Found in ResearchRR&D Notes
When you are researching… • use your brain • evaluate websites!
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 • Find a website about YOUR debate topic. Print out pages that you think you will use for your research • 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!
Project Reminders Show me your survey questions and results; interview questions and answers, etc. • Required 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 Database • Sirs, GALE database • Usernames and passwords on poster & on desktops • 1 Credible Website • You must RADCAB at least one website, too! • 1 Additional Source: Pick 1 • Another website or database article, video, podcast, etc. Save and actively read by PRINTING
Surveys… • For the SDR source, you will show your survey questions and results. • Surveys: consider making a chart or pie graph to show your results • Best 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 advisory • Only question 8th and 9th grade classes • The 6/7th graders are too young for these topics
Surveys Try www.polleverywhere.com • Create an account • Type in your question To turn in results to me • Do 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 afterwards • It 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 week • Remember to PRINT ALL sources!
Lesson Summary • What's more important – accuracy or credibility? Explain. • What are three features you can check to evaluate the credibility of a website?
