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- 10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources - Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.
www.uwec.edu/library/Guides/tencs.html
- 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.
www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm
- Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources - A list of Internet and print resources, with links to example sites and newsgroups.
www.lib.vt.edu/research/evaluate/evalbiblio.html
- Caught in the Web - A journalist's guide to web searches. Covers when to use the library, obstacles to finding what you need on the web (including unreliable information), tips for searching, and links to content-rich sites.
newslink.org/web
- 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.
www.geocities.com/choiceframework
- Critically Analyzing Information Sources - Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm
- Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically - Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
www.iusb.edu/~libg/pdf/critical-reading.pdf
- Evaluate your Sources - Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.
www.library.vcu.edu/help/evaluate.html
- Evaluating Information on the Web - Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
www.library.drexel.edu/research/tutorials/webeval/contents.html
- Evaluating Internet Research Sources - Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
- Evaluating Internet Resources - Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.
library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html
- Evaluating Quality - Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
www.walthowe.com/navnet/quality.html
- Evaluating Quality on the Net - Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
- Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet - Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
www.virtualchase.com/quality
- Evaluating Web Resources - Modules for evaluating all manner of sites. Includes questions and criteria lists, plus links to example pages for discussion.
www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
- Evaluating Web Sites - A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for educational content.
www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer/eval.html
- Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses - This site contains a list of articles from librarians and other information specialists on Web evaluations. In addition, a checklist for evaluating a Web site of as a potential education resource is included.
www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html
- Evaluating Websites - Developed for use in college courses on website design and evaluation; comprehensive information on issues and methods.
trochim.human.cornell.edu/WebEval/webeval.htm
- Evaluation of Information Sources - Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
- 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.
lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/checs98.html
- Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net - LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
www.llrx.com/features/verifying.htm
- Internet Detective - An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of internet resources.
sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
- 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.
school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
- 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.
www.walthowe.com/pubweb/qcontent/qcontent.html
- 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
www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm
- QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist - Eight ways of checking the information on web sites.
www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
- Resource Selection and Information Evaluation - Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.
alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/Evaluate.html
- 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.
info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html
- The Compleat Internet Researcher: The Origin of Information Errors - How do information errors occur?
www.aallnet.org/products/crab/quality.htm
- 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.
lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
- 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.
www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
- 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.
www.webcredibility.org
- UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources - Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
- Using a Web Site With Your Classes - Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/web_classes
- Validating Web-Based Information - Short article summarizing the issues and pointing to many related resources.
wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/validating.htm
- Viewing Results and Evaluating Quality - Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.
lisweb.curtin.edu.au/staff/gwpersonal/searchtut/eval.html
- Web Page Evaluation - Provides a checklist and links to related materials.
www.hu.mtu.edu/teachtech/search2.htm
- Web Page Evaluation Worksheet - Checklist used to grade web sites.
www.duke.edu/~de1/evaluate.html
- Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies - A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.
www.slu.edu/departments/english/research
- Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education - Scholarly paper (pdf format) which argues that higher education students are naïve about the problem of misinformation and 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 how it can be combatted.
www.emeraldinsight.com/pdfs/17308cb2.pdf
- Webpage Evaluation for Librarians - Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.
www.lib.montana.edu/~bcoon/web-eval.html
- WWW Cyberguides - Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
www.cyberbee.com/guides.html
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