Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information

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Abstract
This study compares how professional fact checkers, historians, and first year college students evaluated online information and presents the strategies fact checkers used to efficiently and effectively find trustworthy information.

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Date created July 28, 2018

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Author Wineburg, Sam
Author McGrew, Sarah

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Subject history
Subject assessment
Subject college
Subject fact checker
Subject digital information

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