WILU 2024

Commonly taught information evaluation methods include values like objectivity and authority that can imply that only traditional scholarly sources are acceptable. Although this is often a desirable outcome, it can bias research to exclude groups traditionally disenfranchised from scholarship, such as racialized, queer, and disabled communities. This session will present a few simple modifications to the CRAAP test and its conceptions of authority that provide a means to evaluate marginalized information and prevent its exclusion. Based on trials in undergraduate and graduate courses, this approach encourages critical thinking about what information should be considered contextually trustworthy.