TY - JOUR
T1 - When experts disagree
T2 - 11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Learning and Becoming in Practice, ICLS 2014
AU - Barzilai, Sarit
AU - Tzadok, Eynav
AU - Eshet, Yoram
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Laypeople who use the Internet to learn about issues of personal or social relevance often encounter online information sources that present conflicting expert accounts. The aim of the current study was to provide a close observation of spontaneous sourcing practices while reading conflicting online information sources, to examine the relation between sourcing while reading and subsequent argument construction, and to assess the role of epistemic perspectives, topic interest, and topic knowledge in sourcing. 61 university students thought aloud while reading four blog-posts that provided conflicting accounts of a socio-scientific controversy. The findings revealed a wide range of sourcing practices. High sourcing participants made more sourcing activities, paid more attention to source characteristics, and made source-source comparisons. Higher levels of sourcing were found to be related to subsequent argument complexity. Epistemic perspectives and gender played a significant role in sourcing practices ad highlighted their socio-cultural nature.
AB - Laypeople who use the Internet to learn about issues of personal or social relevance often encounter online information sources that present conflicting expert accounts. The aim of the current study was to provide a close observation of spontaneous sourcing practices while reading conflicting online information sources, to examine the relation between sourcing while reading and subsequent argument construction, and to assess the role of epistemic perspectives, topic interest, and topic knowledge in sourcing. 61 university students thought aloud while reading four blog-posts that provided conflicting accounts of a socio-scientific controversy. The findings revealed a wide range of sourcing practices. High sourcing participants made more sourcing activities, paid more attention to source characteristics, and made source-source comparisons. Higher levels of sourcing were found to be related to subsequent argument complexity. Epistemic perspectives and gender played a significant role in sourcing practices ad highlighted their socio-cultural nature.
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AN - SCOPUS:84937722223
SN - 1814-9316
VL - 2
SP - 721
EP - 728
JO - Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
JF - Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
IS - January
Y2 - 23 June 2014 through 27 June 2014
ER -