Teaching Students How to Identify Credible Sources

By Trevor Muir 
edutopia.org
4 min
April 20, 2023



Teachers can guide students toward a clear understanding of the factors that make a particular source of information reliable or not.


Growing up in the early 1990s, I caught the tail end of the age of encyclopedias. If my teacher gave me a research assignment on the causes of the Cold War, I’d pull volume C off the shelf, flip through the index to find the right page, and read through pages of small-font text until I found my answers. Because the Encyclopedia Britannica employed a team of full-time editors, the information I sifted through could largely be trusted.

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