Hello all,

Here at Brookfield High School we created a Google Form to pre-assess "evaluating authority" for high school freshman. We modeled our questions on the types of things we saw in the "Evaluating Information" study published by Stanford last year.

It's not perfect, but it has questions that ask students to:

distinguish advertisements from news content
evaluate a tweet for credibility
evaluate images on Flickr for authority
evaluate the authority of the authors on two different articles

It is essentially set to self grade - though students are asked to explain their answers.

The assessment is in a Google Drive folder HERE. You should be able to view the assessment and make a copy if you wish.

My goal in sharing it is:

to help make people's lives easier as we all decide what kinds of goals and assessments to use this year
to allow a broad range of schools to administer the same assessment so that we could consider doing some small-scale benchmarking to share data

If you do decide to use this assessment this year, I hope you'll consider sharing your results. We'll strip off student-identifying data of course.

Fingers crossed that this will be useful to some of you. I would love to work together and share what we find.

Jennifer Rocca
BHS Teacher Librarian
203-775-7725 x-7775