In Search of the “Renee Hobbs Media Literacy Scale”
Over the past year, I’ve received a steady stream of email requests—many from researchers in the Philippines—asking permission to use a “media literacy scale by Renee Hobbs.”
There’s just one problem: I am not the author of a standardized research instrument by that name.
I have developed a variety of research measures for media literacy pedagogies in K-12 schools. Click here to see the complete list.
I decided to track down where this scale is coming from, what it looks like, and why my name keeps getting attached to it.
What I found is a useful case study in how conceptual frameworks can be transformed into scales, and how quickly attribution errors can spread once a document is posted online.
Click here to Read More About What I Found Out!
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