Show What You Know Information Competency

A  This article has passed peer-review and been published in the journal called “Obesity”.

B  This article is produced by a web site called “Science Daily” which summarizes scholarly journal articles to present breaking news stories (in secondary source format) about the latest discoveries in health.

C  This article has no abstract, meaning it is unlikely to be a primary information source.

D  The article located in the reference has passed peer-review and been published in the journal “Obesity”.

E  This article is a secondary information source whose content is based on a primary source article (which can be found bolded under Journal Reference) beneath the article at this web page.

F  This secondary article can be deemed credible because its content reflects the contents of a primary journal article whose reference is found at the end of the article.

A  Secondary with questionable credibility (red)

B  Primary and credible (green)

C  Secondary and quite credible (yellow)

D  Secondary and moderately credible (orange)

A  Primary and credible (green)

B  Secondary and moderately credible (orange)

C  Secondary with poor or questionable credibility (red)

D  Secondary and quite credible (yellow)

A  Secondary and quite credible (yellow)

B  Secondary with poor or questionable credibility (red)

C  Secondary and moderately credible (orange)

D  Primary (green)

A  Peer-review performed on primary articles is essentially. a credibility check to assure that the scientists ran a study, calculated the results and delivered the experiment’s conclusions accurately.

B  Research studies performed by scientists using the scientific method are published in scholarly journals, which are considered primary information sources.

C  Primary source articles will often contain an abstract, while secondary sourec articles will never contain an abstract.

D  We can always assume that secondary information sources are credible, without needing to examine them.

E  Secondary source articles are less credible than primary source articles because secondary articles have not undergone peer-review by a scientific journal publisher.