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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html: A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
Evaluating Web Sites http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer/eval.html: A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for educational content.
The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html: By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.
Evaluating Quality on the Net http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html: Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
Using a Web Site With Your Classes http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/web_classes/: Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
Choice Framework http://www.geocities.com/choiceframework/: 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.
Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/: A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.
How To Evaluate A Web Site http://www.llrx.com/features/webeval.htm: Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net http://www.llrx.com/features/verifying.htm: LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
Web Page Evaluation http://www.hu.mtu.edu/teachtech/search2.htm: Provides a checklist and links to related materials.
Evaluating Internet Research Sources http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm: Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
WWW Cyberguides http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html: Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm: Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html: Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.
Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/: Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
Evaluating Quality http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/quality.html: Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
Producing Quality Web Page Content http://www.walthowe.com/pubweb/qcontent/qcontent.html: 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.
Evaluating Electronic Resources http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibraries/eval.html: Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm: 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.
Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web http://www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm: Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity
The Quality Information Checklist http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm: Eight ways of checking information on web sites.
Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html: 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.
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/pdf/critical-reading.pdf: Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html: Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.
Evaluating Credibility of Information on the Internet http://www.rbs0.com/credible.pdf: An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information.
Evaluating Web Sites http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/evaluate.html: Seeks to provide the necessary guidelines to use to determine the quality and accuracy of the information found on the World Wide Web. A document from the University of Maryland libraries.
Information Quality http://ils.unc.edu/~fents/310/: Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.
Web Awareness Canada http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/web_awareness/index.cfm: Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.
Web Page Evaluation Checklist http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm.pdf: PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation.
Checklist for the Evaluation of Information http://www3.baylor.edu/~Billie_Peterson/checklist.html: Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.
Resource Evaluation for BIOME http://biome.ac.uk/guidelines/eval/: Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/credibility/index.html: 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.
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Selection Criteria http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria: Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.
University of Alberta Libraries - Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/criticalevaluation/: Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.
Information Quality WWW Virtual Library - Evaluation of Information Sources http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm: Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.
UBC Library - Criteria for Evaluating Internet Resources http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/: Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions.
Emory MedWeb: Guidelines for inclusion of sites in MedWeb http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/history.htm: Five criteria used by Medweb to build their directory.
HealthWeb Selection Methodology & Guidelines http://healthweb.org/guidelines.cfm: An outline designed to provide HealthWeb participants uniform guidelines for selecting resources to be added to that directory.
Evaluating Web Resources http://libweb.sonoma.edu/assistance/eval.html: Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
The Good, The Bad And The Useless: Evaluating Internet Resources http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue16/digital/: Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use.
Webserch - Evaluate Web Resources http://www.clubi.ie/webserch/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.
Six Quests for The Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/six-quests1996.html: T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.
Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites http://www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/evaluate.html: 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.
Tips for Evaluating Websites (Ohio ESL) http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/help/evalTips.html: A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.
Cal Poly State University - Information Competence Tutorials http://multiweb.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/index.html: Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.
Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education http://www.emeraldinsight.com/pdfs/17308cb2.pdf: Scholarly paper argues that higher education students are naïve 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 how it can be combatted.
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm: Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.
Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/web.asp: Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
Searchpath. WNEC Library Tutorial http://wwwmail.wnec.edu/library/: Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.
Critically Analyzing Information Sources http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm: Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
Misinformation Through the Internet http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ccsrconf/ethicomp2001/abstracts/vedder.html: 2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.
Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html: Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.
Teaching Zack to Think http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html: Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.
Web Page Evaluation Worksheet http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm: Checklist used to grade web sites.
Evaluation of Information Sources http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm: Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
The Web Credibility Project http://credibility.stanford.edu/: 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.
Yahooligans! - Evaluating Web Sites http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/evaluatingwebsites.html: Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.
Evaluating World Wide Web Sites http://www.iona.edu/library/research/wwweval.htm: Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
Evaluating Information on the Web http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/tutorials/webeval/intro.html: Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
T is for Thinking http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html: Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.
Cornell University Library - Evaluating Research Materials http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/evaluating/index.html: Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.
Research Edge: Evaluate Information http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/tutorials/resedge/evaluate.html: Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/checs98.html: 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.
Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Information Found on the Internet http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/: Detailed list of considerations.
ISI Web Site Selection Criteria http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial/cwc-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.
Internet Detective http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/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.
Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2160991: [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.
Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education - The problem of online misinformation and the role of schools http://www.utpjournals.com/simile/issue17/levine.html: "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 information online."
Contentbank.org - The Search for High-Quality Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Communities: Evaluating and Producing What's Needed http://www.contentbank.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Research_From_The_Childrens_Partnership&T...: 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 and Action Plan by The Children's Partnership.
Evaluating Public Websites http://aumnicat.aum.edu/internet/evaluateweb.html: 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 or web design.
Thinking Critically About Research Sources http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/research/: Lesson plan to help teachers and students with critical thinking and processing information found on websites.
10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources http://www.uwec.edu/library/research/guides/tenCs.pdf: Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.

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