Abstract Acquiring information from the Web creates new educational demands even in elementary school. Children need to scrutinize source information (‘sourcing’) to choose trustworthy information. So far, few studies have documented young readers’ abilities to identify and evaluate source information. With two studies, we seek to gather more evidence on elementary students’ sourcing skills and use. In study 1, we investigate to what extent fourth graders can identify source information and evaluate informants’ expertise and intentions in simplistic, age-appropriate reading tasks. In study 2, we explore whether fourth graders spontaneously apply their sourcing skills when reading simplified multiple documents. Results suggest that fourth graders can successfully identify source information and evaluate informants’ expertise and intentions in simple and direct tasks but fail to apply this ability to more complex and implicit tasks. Implications for information literacy education are discussed.

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探索四年级学生的采购技能/分析审查四年级学生信息源的能力

摘要即使在小学阶段，从Web上获取信息也会产生新的教育需求。儿童需要仔细检查源信息（“采购”）以选择可信赖的信息。到目前为止，很少有研究记录年轻读者识别和评估源信息的能力。通过两项研究，我们力求收集更多有关小学生采购技能和使用的证据。在研究1中，我们调查四年级学生在多大程度上可以识别源信息并评估线人在简化，适合年龄的阅读任务中的专业知识和意图。在研究2中，我们探讨了四年级学生在阅读简化的多个文档时是否自发地运用他们的采购技能。结果表明，四年级学生可以成功地识别原始信息，并评估简单和直接任务中线人的专业知识和意图，但无法将此功能应用于更复杂和隐含的任务。讨论了对信息素养教育的意义。