Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait
Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait
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学生的公民在线推理：国家肖像
作者：
Joel Breakstone;Mark D. Smith;S. Wineburg;Amie Rapaport;Jill Carle;Marshall W. Garland;A. Saavedra
今天的学生能够从虚假的网上辨别出高质量的信息吗？在同类调查中，我们对3,446名高中生进行了评估。在配备实时互联网连接的情况下，学生们对六个建构反应任务做出反应。学生们在他们身上挣扎。当被要求调查一个声称“传播气候科学事实报告”的网站时，96%的人从未了解过该组织与化石燃料行业的联系。三分之二的人无法区分新闻报道和热门网站主页上的广告。超过一半的人认为，在俄罗斯拍摄的匿名发布的Facebook视频为美国选民欺诈提供了“强有力的证据”。学生们没有调查网站背后的组织或团体，而是经常被网站的“外观”、顶级域名、“关于”页面上的内容以及它提供的大量信息所欺骗。该研究的样本反映了美国高中生的人口统计学概况，一个多层次回归模型探讨了分数是否因学生特征而异。研究结果显示，学生的能力不同年级，自我报告的成绩，地点，社会经济地位，种族，母亲的教育，和免费/降价午餐的地位。总的来说，这些发现揭示了迫切需要让学生做好准备，在一个信息不断在屏幕上流动的世界中茁壮成长。
Are today’s students able to discern quality information from sham online? In the largest investigation of its kind, we administered an assessment to 3,446 high school students. Equipped with a live internet connection, the students responded to six constructed-response tasks. The students struggled on all of them. Asked to investigate a site claiming to “disseminate factual reports” on climate science, 96% never learned about the organization’s ties to the fossil fuel industry. Two thirds were unable to distinguish news stories from ads on a popular website’s home page. More than half believed that an anonymously posted Facebook video, shot in Russia, provided “strong evidence” of U.S. voter fraud. Instead of investigating the organization or group behind a site, students were often duped by weak signs of credibility: a website’s “look,” its top-level domain, the content on its About page, and the sheer quantity of information it provided. The study’s sample reflected the demographic profile of high school students in the United States, and a multilevel regression model explored whether scores varied by student characteristics. Findings revealed differences in student abilities by grade level, self-reported grades, locality, socioeconomic status, race, maternal education, and free/reduced-price lunch status. Taken together, these findings reveal an urgent need to prepare students to thrive in a world in which information flows ceaselessly across their screens.