[CASL-L] SBAC and Claim 4: What do they mean by "credible" ???

[Janet Kenney]

Everyone,

A colleague and I are working on creating templates that will resemble the
SBAC adaptive questions for Claim 4--in particular the questions about
source evaluation (Claim 4, Target 3).  The documents we are working from
are from SBA itself (Apendix B, and the ELA Item Specifications
<http://www.smarterbalanced.org/smarter-balanced-assessments/#item>).
Throughout the documents, it is mentioned that students will be evaluating
websites for "credibility and relevance."  With the current models of eval
we teach (CRAP and CARRDS), credibility is simply that a source has a
trustworthy author (e.g. a credentialed, named author--individual or
corporate).  It feels like SBAC is working off a broader definition.  They
never ask questions specifically about bias or purpose, so are they
including those concepts in Credibility?????  Is there a glossary/guide to
help us ensure I am interpreting that word correctly?  I did a keyword of
the SBA website for the term credibility, and did not find anything to
elaborate.

Anyone else try to dissect the SBAC documents and come up with anything
else?

Thanks,
-Janet


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