Friday, October 17, 2025

Emerging and established readers’ cognitive and metacognitive strategies during online evaluation - Julie A. Corrigan, Elena Forzani - Computers in Human Behavior

•This study describes a range of cognitive and metacognitive strategies involving  qualitatively more complex and varied strategies used to critically evaluate online information.

•Cognitive and metacognitive evaluation strategies were compared and contrasted within and between groups of emerging and established evaluators, which demonstrated that experts use more varied and greater instances of metacognition and relied more heavily on corroboration (with self, expert, and other) strategies.

•Overall, this study represents a holistic synthesis of the cognitive and metacognitive strategies necessary to evaluate online information credibility.

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