This week’s topics
Can I trust this source?
- The CRAAP test: currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, purpose
- Spotting fake news
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Evaluate the credibility of a source (CRAAP test).
Activity
Use the CRAAP test to rate four websites.
Study materials
Further resources
- Evaluating Information: Applying the CRAAP Test · PDF · Meriam Library, CSU Chico, the original one-page CRAAP checklist (currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, purpose) · for registered students
- Writing Guide, 14.1: Judging Credibility and the CRAAP Test · PDF · OpenStax Writing Guide with Handbook (2021), 14.1 section applying the CRAAP test to sources, pp. 458–459 · for registered students
- College Success, 7.7: Information Literacy · PDF · OpenStax College Success (2020, updated 2023), 7.7: judging sources and spotting fake news, pp. 219–225 · for registered students
- Questioning CRAAP: a comparison of source evaluation methods with first-year undergraduat… · Open-access article · Lowe et al. (2021), Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Tests the CRAAP checklist against other ways of judging sources. · for registered students
- Associations between online instruction in lateral reading strategies and fact-checking C… · Open-access article · Brodsky et al. (2021), AERA Open. Lateral reading as a quick way to fact-check online sources. · for registered students
- Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation · Open-access article · Roozenbeek & van der Linden (2019), Palgrave Communications. A game that helps people spot fake news techniques. · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
