What May Predict Middle Students’ Incidental Information Literacy? A Mixed-Method Study

• In Event: RTD- Mixed Methods to Understand Middle-School Learning

Short Description

This study aims to determine the relationship, if any, between middle school students’ Incidental Information Literacy (Incidental-IL) and the following constructs: skepticism, curiosity, persistence, metacognition, and to gather qualitative data on the ways, if any, that students who perform well on an assessment of Incidental-IL exhibit skepticism, curiosity, persistence, and/or metacognition when evaluating information on social media.

Authors

• Contributor: Xiaoman Wang, University of Florida

• Contributor: Angela Kohnen, Univeristy of Florida

• Contributor: Christine Wusylko, University of Florida

• Contributor: Kara Dawson, University of Florida

• Contributor: Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt, University of Florida

• Contributor: Max Sommer, University of Florida