Instruction improves adolescents' metastrategic knowledge of sourcing and corroboration, with gains reflected in evaluation performance¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Adolescents' metastrategic knowledge about sourcing and corroboration improved through instruction, and this increase was reflected in their evaluation performance. → Carita Kiili 2026

Evidence¶

Carita Kiili 2026¶

Carita Kiili, Ivar Bråten, and Julie Coiro. (2026). The framework of prior knowledge in online credibility evaluation. Educational Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2026.2717081

q2 · i? · theoretical · r3

The review reports, citing Marten and Stadtler (2025), an instructional study in which "adolescents’ metastrategic knowledge about sourcing and corroboration was improved through instruction," with the increase also reflected in evaluation performance. No effect size is printed.

"Marten and Stadtler (2025) showed that adolescents’ metastrategic knowledge about sourcing and corroboration was improved through instruction, with this increase in metastrategic knowledge also reflected in their evaluation performance."

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Critical Thinking — outcome: instruction changes it

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