Towards a technological strategy for using sources of reliable information on the internet

Abstract

This is a study with pre-test and post-test design whose main objective is to know the effectiveness of a sequence of activities designed to develop the skills in the search of reliable information on the Internet, this, in university students of the first semester in a degree in the Chemical Biological area. Throughout this study, ICTs are used as a tool for the search of specialized information, through the use of databases as well as for the co-evaluations of information sources carried out by the students, using the C.A.R.S. checklist for the evaluation of information sources on the internet. To obtain results in this research, a comparison is made of the data obtained in the co-evaluations, so the methodological design is divided into two stages, one before and one after the application of the sequence of activities, to verify the effectiveness of the sequence the comparison of means is made by the t-Student statistic.