CRCB CHAPTER 14

Evaluating internet resources

Using internet is available when you find information.

Seven-step internet source evaluation system

1. know your purpose (Relevance)

2. double-check your facts and sources (Reliability, Credibility, and Accuracy)


3. Consider the source (reliability and Credibility)

4. Evaluate the look and content of a site (Credibility and Accuracy)

5. Consider the intended audience (Relevance and Reliability)

6. Evaluate the writing (Accuracy, Credibility, and Reliability)

7. Compare content with what you already know (Relevance, Reliability, Credibility, and Accuracy)

A rubric is a chat that contains criteria designed to evaluate specific information. It can be an effective tool for evaluating internet information.

CRCB CHAPTER 13

Reading beyond the words

Benjamin bloom developed a list of six levels of thinking for teachers to use as a curriculum, guide and assessment tool. It has gained popularity in the educational community it is called bloom’s taxonomy. It consists of six levels-knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. When you prepare an exam, you can predict the kinds of questions instructor will ask by answering questions at each of these levels.

CRCB CHAPTER 12

Identifying and Evaluating arguments

Arguments are often the logical structures that persuade other person or support your ideas. These logical structures consist of statements, conclusions and reasons that support them. A conclusion is the judgment, decision, or opinion you reach after thinking about or investigating an issue. A reason is a statement that explains justifies, or otherwise supports a conclusion. A deductive argument begins with a general statement or a general law that is then supported by specific details, reasons, or examples that prove or explain it, which are called premises. An inductive argument begins with a series of specific observations and concludes with a generalization that logically follows from it.

CRCB CHAPTER 11

Reading, Understanding, and Creating Visual Aids

Visual aids are used to help readers better understand content. It shows you how ideas connect or relate to each other. Authors use visuals as learning aids to illustrate and explain their main idea. Types of visual aids are charts and tables, diagrams, illustrations, graphs, photographs etc… the type of information being conveyed determines what type of visual aid an author will use.

CRCB CHAPTER 10

Textbook marking

Textbook marking is a systematic way of marking, highlighting, and labeling ideas.
It helps you to find important ideas and you can understand important ideas and less important ideas. Previewing, Study-reading, Mark or highlight text, writing margin cues are steps in the process of textbook marking. Knowing what else to mark, besides the main, major supporting details, and new vocabulary, or if more marking is even needed if
If you decide what else to mark, you need three information Lecture, Lab, and Unclear information. There are two kinds of ways to develop a personal system of textbook marking. First is using symbols and second is using highlighters

CRCB CHAPTER 9

PSR= preview, study-read, and review

You should ask yourself before, during, and after you read
When you use previewing you can assess how difficult a chapter and encourages you to read actively by asking questions. When you use study-reading, it is useful to share what you have learned with a classmate. When you can explain the relation of what you just have read and what you already know, it means you have accurately comprehended the material. In the review, you should ask yourself questions about what you have just read and what you already know. PSR help to understand what author say and give yourself the opportunity to react to what you read.

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Deductive reasoning: how do I reason from premises?

Deductive reasoning involves drawing conclusions logically from other things that are already known. Deductive reasoning is a course that premises and conclusions necessarily follow from these premises investigate. Syllogisms allow logicians to determine what is being said, to identify hidden premises, and to find out if the argument makes sense.

What syllogisms do?

1. to clarify the claims of the premises
2. to discover and expose any hidden premises
3. to find out if one thought follows logically from another

Each of these objectives will be discussed in turn.

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Inductive reasoning and inductive fallacies: how do I reason from evidence?

Inductive reasons from evidence about some members of a class in order to form a conclusion about all members of that class. Inductive can be done through sensory observation, enumeration, analogous reasoning, causal reasoning, and from pattern recognition.

There are five rules for evaluating the reliability of hypotheses based on statistical samplings.

1. The greater the size of the sample, the greater is its probability of being representative of the whole of a class.
2. A sampling must be representative in order to lead to reliable results.
3. One counter example can refute a generalization arrived at through inductive reasoning.
4. Statistical evidence should be offered in sufficient detail for verification.
5. When evaluating the results of polls, it is important to examine both the polling agency and the polling question for bias.

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Fallacies: what’s a faulty argument?

A Fallacies is an idea which many people believe to be true, but which is in fact false because it is based on incorrect information or reasoning. Appeals to feat and pity seek to persuade through affecting emotions rather than through sound rational support for an argument. Personal attack refutes another argument by attacking the opponent rather than addressing the argument itself. circular reasoning is the assertion or repeated assertion of a conclusion as though the conclusion were a reason.

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Argument: what’s a good argument?

An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct. In argument critical reading is an active endeavor that requires involvement, interaction with questions and evaluation.
Arguments state and defend a claim. Sometimes they try to persuade.

1. Are the reasons adequate to support the conclusion?
2. Are there any hidden assumptions in this argument?
3. Are any central words ambiguous or slanted to incite prejudice?
4. Are there fallacies in its reasoning?
5. Is any important information or evidence omitted?
6. Is any information false, contradictory, or irreconcilable?

These questions summarize standards for judging the strengthens and weaknesses of argument

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Viewpoint: what’s the filter?

Viewpoint is the way that they think about things in general, or the way they think about a particular thing. When we know our own viewpoint and understand the viewpoints of others as well, we can communicate best. Unconscious viewpoints include the egocentric, ethnocentric, religiocentric, androcentric, and anthropocentric. To understand, we have to know that an assumption can be unconscious.