Use concomitant sourcing prompts (embedded credibility rating scales during viewing) to direct young students' attention to source when watching videos¶

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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study

Description¶

This strategy embeds source credibility rating scales directly in the video player so that students rate each speaker's expertise and trustworthiness while watching. In the study, after 10 seconds of viewing each excerpt a question appeared on screen, and students "were asked to give their answer to move on to the next video", forcing engagement with source information. The authors report this concomitant prompting improved recognition, convincingness choices and expertise justifications, and conclude it "seems promising to train young students to pay more attention to the source when watching videos online".

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Rating-scale questions must be embedded in the video player during viewing and answering must be required to proceed, so the prompt directly requires consideration of source information during processing.

Constraints¶

• Effects were moderate, possibly reduced because the conflicting-arguments material itself fosters source consideration; conclusions are limited to embedded sources (the on-screen speaker) and need replication with different age groups and video material.

Target Learners¶

• middle-school students (seventh graders, average age 13)

Target Learning Goals¶

• considering the source of information in videos: memorizing speaker identity, evaluating source credibility and expertise, and justifying convincingness judgments by source expertise

Claims¶

• Combining the instructional video with embedded rating scales yielded the highest immediate recognition, but the advantage faded by delayed posttest [+W]
• Students exposed to embedded rating scales mention interviewees' expertise more often in their convincingness justifications [+W]
• Embedded source credibility rating scales during video viewing improve middle-schoolers' source identity recognition, especially at delayed posttest [+W]
• Embedded rating scales make middle-schoolers more likely to judge the expert (researcher) speaker as the most convincing [+W]

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Colin Lescarret, Julien Magnier, Valérie Le Floch, Jean-Christophe Sakdavong, and 2 more. (2022). Do you trust this speaker? The impact of prompting on middle-school students’ consideration of source when watching conflicting videos. Preprint, Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1998147/v1