Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency
Assess the credibility of multiple sources and the adequacy of evidence used to justify conclusions (evidence)
Elaboration
- Sample activities:
- Distinguish between primary and secondary sources.
- Assess the accuracy of sources (e.g., consider when they were created, recognize ambiguity and vagueness, distinguish conclusions from supporting statements, analyze logic or consistency of conclusions in terms of evidence provided).
- Identify biases that influence documents (e.g., articulate different points of view, such as a landholder’s or tenant’s, on topics or issues; identify authors’ motives and describe how that could affect their reliability as a source; determine whether sources reflect single or multiple points of view).
- Locate and use relevant data.
- Evaluate the value of literature from this period (e.g., Canterbury Tales, The Tale of Genji) as a historical record.
- Key questions:
- How did the changing understanding of geography and astronomy affect how people perceived the world and their place in it?
- What do different systems of mapping and cartography indicate about the cultures from which they emerged?
- Which sources of information from this period are the most reliable?
keywords
Assess the credibility of multiple sources and the adequacy of evidence used to justify conclusions