Directory of Web Site Evaluation Resources

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Sites about critically evaluating information retrieved on the Web.

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Resources in This Category

• 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.

• Checklist for the Evaluation of Information

  http://www.baylor.edu/lib/electrres/index.php?id=31954
  Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.

• Critically Analyzing Information Sources

  http://guides.library.cornell.edu/criticallyanalyzing
  Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.

• 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 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.

• Evaluating Quality

  http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/quality.html
  Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.

• Evaluating Quality on the Net

  http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
  Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• WWW Cyberguides

  http://www.cyberbee.com/guides_sites.html
  Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.

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