Preservice teachers’ recognition of source and content bias in educational application (app) reviews

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Highlights：

• We examine the role of source and content bias in pre-service teachers' (PSTs') evaluations of educational app reviews.

• PSTs discounted reviews published as a sponsored post or on a commercial website.

• PSTs similarly rated a third-party review and a commercial review with a “real” testimonial.

• PSTs trusted two-sided reviews more-so than one-sided reviews.

• We document PSTs' difficulties distinguishing between commercially biased reviews.

摘要

•We examine the role of source and content bias in pre-service teachers' (PSTs') evaluations of educational app reviews.•PSTs discounted reviews published as a sponsored post or on a commercial website.•PSTs similarly rated a third-party review and a commercial review with a “real” testimonial.•PSTs trusted two-sided reviews more-so than one-sided reviews.•We document PSTs' difficulties distinguishing between commercially biased reviews.

论文关键词：Source evaluation,Trustworthiness ratings,Sourcing,Bias,Source bias,Content bias

论文评审过程：Received 29 October 2021, Revised 27 March 2022, Accepted 3 April 2022, Available online 7 April 2022, Version of Record 4 May 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107297