Civic Online Reasoning Print Materials

The growth of native advertising has made it more difficult to know when there is an ulterior motive behind online content. This task assesses students’ ability to distinguish between articles and advertisements.

In this task, students must evaluate two articles from the same news outlet, consider potential conflicts of interest, and determine which they find to be more reliable.

Before reading any online source, students need to ask a fundamental question: Who is the author? This task asks students examine the headline of an article about personal finance that is sponsored by a bank.

In order for students to effectively navigate the news, they need to understand the differences between news stories and opinion columns. This task assesses a student’s ability to recognize and differentiate news and opinion articles in an online format.

This assessment gauges students’ ability to assess the trustworthiness of different kinds of posts made about breaking news on Twitter.

In this task, students are presented with two news stories posted on social media and asked to determine which is the more trustworthy source.

This assessment measures students’ ability to evaluate evidence when it takes the form of a vivid photograph.

This task measures students’ ability to evaluate the relative strengths of arguments made in the comments section of a news website.

This task presents students with a claim from the comments section of an online news site and gauges their ability to reason about what makes a comment more or less trustworthy.