DETERMINING THE

TRUTHFULNESS AND ACCURACY

OF THE MATERIAL VIEWED

Quarter 4 – Module 4
 Learning Objectives
1. Determine the truthfulness and accuracy
presented in news reports;
2. Compare facts present in various viewing
materials;
3. Create a graphic organizer of the information
gathered from the material viewed;
4. Apply the indicators in determining the
truthfulness and accuracy of the material
viewed.
 What I Know
Read the statements carefully. Write TRUE if the
statement is correct and
write FALSE if it is incorrect.
All materials viewed on TV
and internet present an FALSE
accurate information.
There are some sources of
information whose purpose TRUE
is to mislead and misinform.
It is important to evaluate
the sources and information TRUE
you hear and see.
Accuracy means not only
getting the objectively
verifiable ‘facts’ right TRUE
names, places, dates of
birth, and quotes.
Knowing where an
author/reporter is coming
from is not important in FALSE
judging what they have to
say.
 What’s New
Activity: Let’s Watch This!
View the short clip taken from the internet.
 Processing Questions
1. What is the video all about?
2. Where and when do we usually see this clip?
3. What is the video clip trying to tell you?
4. According to the speaker in the video, can you
believe all the things that you hear and watch in
the television or on the internet? Why?
 Determining Truthfulness and
Accuracy of the Material Viewed
Truth and Accuracy
01 TRUTH
is the reality behind facts. Facts are the available
data.
02 ACCURACY
means not only getting the objectively verifiable ‘fact’ right
– names, places, dates of birth, quotes, the results of
sporting fixtures – but accurately reporting opinions
expressed by those who you report.
 Here are some of the indications
that information viewed is accurate
and true.
 The same information can be found in
other reliable sources.
Take notes of the main facts presented in the
material viewed. Compare it with multiple
sources. Are the information or facts presented
present in other sources? If the information is the
same in multiple sources, then you have a
truthful and accurate information.
The sources used for documentation are
known to be generally reliable.
Establishing the accuracy of multimedia sources
can be challenging because they often represent
a combination of facts, opinions and
perspectives
from different individuals. Do not trust
anonymous sources.
The author of the information is known to
have expertise on that subject.
Determining the knowledge and expertise of the
subject or the speaker in a multimedia source is
very important. Anyone can make an assertion or
a
statement about something but only someone
who knows that thing can make a reasonably
reliable statement or assertion about it. Research
the person who is making the statement
 The presentation is free from logical
fallacies or errors.
An important aspect of accuracy is the
intellectual integrity of the item. Errors of logic
occur primarily in the presentation of
conclusions, opinions,
interpretations, editorials, ideas, etc
Quotations are “in context’” – the meaning of
the original work is kept in the work which
quotes the original.
Statements quoted in the material viewed must
be quoted correctly and accurately. If it is used
in context or in the material viewed, the meaning
of the original statement must be kept and no
opinion and assumptions about it should be
made
 Answer the ff activities
in Quarter 4 Module 4
Determining Truthfulness
Asynchronou and Accuracy of the
Material Viewed .
s • What’s more p.8
Activities • What I Have Learned
p.9
• Assessment pp.11-12
• Activity 7 p.13