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• Please turn in parent permission slips, if you
  havent already!

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Todays 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.

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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?

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Cornell Notes

• Todays Topic
• Ethos Credibility

• Essential Question
• Why is establishing credibility an essential part
  of research?

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Credibility vs. AccuracyRRD 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

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Wikipedia?!RRD NOTES

• Wikipedia Documentary Video 700
• In your RRD NOTES
• What are acceptable/unacceptable situations or
  reasons to use Wikipedia while researching?

Wikipedia for Research Wikipedia for Research
Acceptable Unacceptable
1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3.
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A Primary Source is a document which was written
or created during the time under study.

• 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!
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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!
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Click on the Icon to play the video
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Locating Accessing Information

• Academic Databases
• (i.e. SIRS, InfoTrac)
• Pull up only articles printed in proven credible
  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

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Search EnginesTools, Tips, Tricks
Google gt More
Careful about credibility accuracy!
Scholarly, more credible and accurate sources
than just websites. More like an academic
database.
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Terms Found in ResearchRRD Notes

• 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

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When you are researching

• use your brain
• evaluate websites!

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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? ?

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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!

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Independent Practiceaka Homework

1. Find a website about YOUR debate topic. Print
   out pages that you think you will use for your
   research
2. 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!
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Project Reminders

• 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.

Show me your survey questions and results
interview questions and answers, etc.
Save and actively read by PRINTING
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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

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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.

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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
  Voicethreadyou will quote it as a source

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Homework

• KEEP researching!
• Complete your RADCAB sheet for your World Wide
  Website source
• Complete Cornell questions column from todays
  notes.
• ALL research due next week
• Remember to PRINT ALL sources!

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Lesson Summary

• What's more important accuracy or credibility?
  Explain.
• What are three features you can check to evaluate
  the credibility of a website?