Organic Name Reactions for the students and aspirants of Chemistry12th.pptx
Fact Checking Scholarship
1. Fact Checking & Contextualizing
Scholarship
Because peer review isn’t enough!
Nicole Branch
Santa Clara University Library
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2. Today we will….
• Define “fact checking” practices for academic discourse
• Contextualize scholarly sources
• Examine information evaluation resources to begin thinking about
what we might create
8. Academic Practices & Evaluation of Sources
• Methodology:
• Sample size
• Inaccurate/falsified results (subjects described inaccurately before/after
vaccine)
• Parent observations may be inaccurate
• Replication
• Others could not repeat the experiment and get the same result
• Ethics
• Conducted invasive procedures that were not necessary
• Didn’t have proper clearance to conduct invasive experiments
• Financial conflicts of interest
13. Where to fact check
• Author website
• Critiques/commentary
• Altmetrics
• Citation tracing
14. Investigating & Contextualizing Scholarship
• Find information about the author
• Identify discourse community
• Identify theoretical approach
• Identify methods
• Identify critiques
15. Fake News Guide
• Example guide
• In groups review & discuss
• Share
16. Examining Information Evaluation Products
• Describe the source
• Format
• Audience
• Goal
• What did you like?
• What could you do better?
• What ideas did it give you?