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Evaluating Credibility & Bias in Academic and Media Sources

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  • 4 pages total

  • brief explanation

  • 3 practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

  • 4 pages total

  • brief explanation

  • 3 practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

Spot the bias before it spots you — train your inner fact-check ninja!

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Spot the bias before it spots you — train your inner fact-check ninja! ●❍°•°•°○°•°•°❍●

This worksheet develops students’ critical evaluation skills by training them to question credibility, validity, and bias in information. Through three structured activities, it focuses on:

Source Credibility: Comparing peer-reviewed academic journals with corporate blogs to assess expertise, authority, and potential conflicts of interest.

Language & Framing: Examining how loaded words in news reports (e.g., “peaceful” vs. “aggressive”) shape and manipulate readers’ perceptions of the same event.

Academic Logic: Identifying confirmation bias and oversimplified conclusions in policy arguments, emphasizing the need for independent, balanced evidence to support claims.

Additional Info:

  1. Grade Level:  11–12

  2. Difficulty Level: Difficult

  3. Standards:

  • CCSS RI.11-12.6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective.

  • CCSS RI.11-12.8: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning and evidence in texts.

  • CEFR C1: Can understand implicit meaning and recognize a wide range of biases and attitudes in complex texts, including technical and academic writing.