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9th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 10 of 12

Research & Credibility

Peer review, AI output and synthesis

What your child practices

Students practice effective research questions, peer review, conflicting sources, sampling, lateral reading, checking AI output for invented sources, and citing and synthesizing evidence honestly.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: ELA.9-10.W.7; ELA.9-10.W.8 · research questions, conflicting sources, credibility and citing

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which is the strongest way to use a statistic in an essay?

    • state the number alone
    • round it up to sound bigger
    • put it in the title
    • give the number, its source and why it matters

  2. Question 2

    What is a limitation of content generated by AI tools?

    • it can include errors, invented sources and hidden bias
    • it is always peer-reviewed
    • it cites every source correctly
    • it cannot write sentences

  3. Question 3

    Why is it important to note the date you accessed a website?

    • it is required for books
    • web content can change after you read it
    • it makes citations longer
    • it shows your opinion

  4. Question 4

    What is the strongest evidence for a claim about climate trends?

    • a single photo
    • a celebrity opinion
    • one cold day
    • long-term data from scientific agencies

  5. Question 5

    What makes a research question effective?

    • it is focused, arguable or open-ended, and answerable with evidence
    • it is as broad as possible
    • it is about your opinion only
    • it has a yes or no answer

  6. Question 6

    An AI chatbot provides a convincing paragraph with a citation to a real journal, but the article doesn't exist. This is called a…

    • peer review
    • hallucinated or fabricated citation
    • paraphrase
    • primary source

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