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Evaluate | Évaluer
Critical readers judge and evaluate texts for personal reflection and understanding.
Evaluating is a comprehension strategy that involves measuring the value of a text and making informed judgements about the text. The reader combines his/her background knowledge/experiences with information from the text and makes judgments based on standards or criteria.
A reader judges, justifies, and/or defends his/her understandings by applying criteria such as importance, accuracy, credibility, usefulness, appropriateness, and personal enjoyment to ideas and/or information obtained from the text and from his/her prior knowledge/ experiences or schema.
When a reader evaluates a text, he/she assesses and makes judgments about:
- the suitability of the text for the intended purpose*
- the quality of the writer’s craft*
- the authenticity, accuracy or reliability of the content*
- the validity of the perspectives presented*
- the relative merit of a piece of work
When evaluating various texts consider the following:
- This information is/is not accurate because …
Cette information est/n’est pas exacte parce que …
- The information appears to be valid and well-researched because…
Les informations semblent être valides et bien documentées parce que …
- This is effective/not effective because …
C’est efficace/ce n’est pas efficace parce que …
- The author’s qualifications, credentials and connections to the subject are…
Les qualifications, l’expérience professionnelle et les connaissances de l’auteur à ce sujet sont …
- I (don’t) think … is fair because …
Je (ne) pense (pas) que… est juste parce que …
- That sounds biased to me because …
Cela me semble préjugé parce que …
- The author is taking a personal stand on …
L’auteur prend une position personnelle sur …
- The pros and cons of … are…
Les pours et les contres de … sont …
- I agree/disagree that…because…
Je suis d’accord/en désaccord avec …parce que…
- In my opinion…
À mon avis …
- My position on this issue…
Ma position à ce sujet…
- I think that the value or importance of… is…
Je pense que la valeur ou l’importance de … est …