{"id":1127,"date":"2020-11-06T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/?page_id=1127"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:24:09","slug":"confirmation-bias","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/first-year-seminar\/faculty\/instruction-plans-and-activities\/confirmation-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/files\/Information-Literacy-and-Confirmation-Bias.pptx\">Information Literacy and Confirmation Bias<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; a PowerPt to use with students<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/files\/Research-and-Confirmation-Bias-Instruction-Plan.docx\">Research and Confirmation Bias Instruction Plan<\/a> &#8211; for instructors<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/files\/Handout-for-Students.docx\">Handout for Students<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/files\/Humans-are-hardwired-to-dismiss-facts-that-dont-fit-their-worldview.pdf\">Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don&#8217;t fit their worldview<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; an article for students to read and discuss<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/files\/Guidelines_for_the_Research_Paper.pdf\">Guidelines_for_the_Research_Paper<\/a> &#8211; Instructors, if you wanted to use the confirmation bias assignment as a lead-up to writing a research paper, this might be helpful. (I developed it as an alternative assignment during our quick pivot due to Covid-19 to online only instruction in spring 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/files\/Research_Paper_Grading_Rubric.pdf\">Research_Paper_Grading_Rubric<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Literacy and Confirmation Bias\u00a0 &#8211; a PowerPt to use with students Research and Confirmation Bias Instruction Plan &#8211; for instructors Handout for Students Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don&#8217;t fit their worldview\u00a0 &#8211; an article for students to read and discuss Guidelines_for_the_Research_Paper &#8211; Instructors, if you wanted to use the confirmation bias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1127\/revisions\/1468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/fys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}