Web Site Evaluation Evaluation Instructional Technology

Sites about critically evaluating information retrieved on the Web.

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• Evaluating Web Resources - Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
  
• Evaluating Credibility of Information on the Internet - An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information. [PDF]
  
• Evaluation of Information Sources - Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
  
• UBC Library - Criteria for Evaluating Internet Resources - Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions.
  
• Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites - Short page covering some basic points: Who is responsible? Is the URL appropriate? Who do they link to? Who links to them? Use common sense.
  
• Evaluating World Wide Web Sites - Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
  
• Producing Quality Web Page Content - Article explains how to give a web page content the mark of quality. Conversely, it helps point out what to look for in a quality site.
  
• T is for Thinking - Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.
  
• Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net - LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
  
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys - A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
  
• Evaluating Quality on the Net - Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
  
• Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation - Categorizes problematic sites and gives many examples of each type. Ends with a section which points to sites which give people accurate information as well as warnings about hoaxes and half-true stories.
  
• Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - Detailed list of considerations.
  
• Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education - The problem of online misinformation and the role of schools - "Amid all the excellent free information that is available online, there are many damagingly false assertions and misleading arguments... Some prominent individuals and institutions are calling for schools to prepare young people to identify reliable
  
• Research Edge: Evaluate Information - Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
  
• Evaluating Quality - Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
  
• Critically Analyzing Information Sources - Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
  
• Misinformation Through the Internet - 2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.
  
• Information Quality - Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.
  
• Evaluating Web Sites - A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for educational content.
  
• Web Page Evaluation Checklist - PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation. [PDF]
  
• Thinking Critically About Research Sources - Lesson plan to help teachers and students with critical thinking and processing information found on websites.
  
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.
  
• Choice Framework - Developed to evaluate the quality of health-related websites aimed primarily at online health consumers. Evaluation criteria fall under the headings of Credibility, Content, Disclosure, Links, Design, Interactivity, Caveats and Differentiation.
  
• Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites - Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
  
• Searchpath: WNEC Library Tutorial - Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.
  
• Evaluating Internet Research Sources - Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
  
• Web Awareness Canada - Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.
  
• Six Quests for The Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources - T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.
  
• Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet - Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
  
• Resource Evaluation for BIOME - Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
  
• Using a Web Site With Your Classes - Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
  
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask - Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.
  
• ISI Web Site Selection Criteria - Thomson ISI sells a product called "Current Web Contents" which includes, in part, a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites. This is how sites are selected for inclusion, and how they're evaluated.
  
• Yahooligans! - Evaluating Web Sites - Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.
  
• Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web - Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity
  
• An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation - Paper/course written in 1999 with a 2002 update. Covers why evaluate, methods of evaluation, and why and how to teach it in the schools.
  
• The Web Credibility Project - Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, their goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. With information, papers, and related links.
  
• How To Evaluate A Web Site - Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
  
• Evaluating Public Websites - A brief instruction how to use the linked, one page PDF form to evaluate sites. The form results generates an overall numeric rating with an indication of acceptable or unacceptable for use. The focus of the form is on information quality, not appearance
  
• University of Alberta Libraries - Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet - Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.
  
• Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically - Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read. [PDF]
  
• Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages - Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.
  
• Cal Poly State University - Information Competence Tutorials - Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.
  
• The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources - By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.
  
• Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation - Presentation given in 1998. Covers why evaluation of web resources is necessary, and gives criteria for scrutinizing web materials. Provides links to many related and supporting sites.
  
• Evaluating Information on the Web - Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
  
• Information Quality WWW Virtual Library - Evaluation of Information Sources - Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.
  
• Tips for Evaluating Websites (Ohio ESL) - A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.
  
• Internet Detective - A free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research, produced by the University of Bristol and Manchester Metropolitan University.
  
• Webserch - Evaluate Web Resources - Guide to assessing the source, the content, and the format of websites, the primary considerations being accuracy, authority, coverage, currency and objectivity. Checklists in HTML and pdf format available.
  
• Contentbank.org - The Search for High-Quality Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Communities: Evaluating and Producing What's Needed - Research and recommendations to encourage the creation of low-barrier content and the careful evaluation of existing content to ensure that low-income and underserved individuals find a wide array of the online resources they want most. An Issue Brief a
  
• The Good, The Bad And The Useless: Evaluating Internet Resources - Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use.
  
• Web Page Evaluation Worksheet - Checklist used to grade web sites.
  
• Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources - Refereed article written by Alastair Smith which surveys criteria published on the Web and in the print literature and proposes a set of criteria (a toolbox) that can be used by librarians and users to evaluate Internet information sources.
  
• Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet - [Book review.] Web of Deception offers an exposé of the types of chicanery, fraud and misinformation that's all over the Internet and suggests what to do if you get stung by it.
  
• Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education - Scholarly paper argues that higher education students are naive about the problem of misinformation, believe they can identify it, and do not make extra effort to check the sources of their information. Discusses sources and causes of misinformation and [PDF]
  
  

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