A Worksheet Structure For Source Evaluation
Launch library · evergreen read
A simple worksheet with a handful of genuinely consistent questions, who published this, when was it published, what is the evidence, what do other sources say, gives students a repeatable structure to apply to any source they encounter, rather than reinventing the whole process each time from scratch on their own.
Keep the questions few enough to complete quickly and without much fuss, since a worksheet that takes longer than the checking itself defeats its own entire purpose. The goal is a scaffold that eventually becomes fully unnecessary once the habit is properly internalised, not a permanent requirement forever imposed.
Reviewing completed worksheets together as a group, comparing how different students answered the same question about the same source, often surfaces useful disagreement well worth discussing openly as a class, rather than treating any single answer as the only correct one worth defending loudly in front of everyone else present.