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Web Site Evaluation Evaluation Instructional Technology
Web Site Evaluation Evaluation Instructional Technology
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- Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.
- Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.
- 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.
- Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions.
- Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.
- Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.
- Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
- Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.
- By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.
- 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 an
- Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
- 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.
- Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.
- An outline designed to provide HealthWeb participants uniform guidelines for selecting resources to be added to that directory.
- Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
- Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
- Consumers WebWatch, a project of Consumers Union, publishes research and journalism on credibility issues that matter to consumers, and recommends Web-wide guidelines to address widespread problems of credibility and trust.
- Five criteria used by Medweb to build their directory.
- Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.
- 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.
- Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
- Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.
- Expectations for site credibility, usability, and content.
- Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
- PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation.
- Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.
- Eight ways of checking information on web sites.
- 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.
- Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
- Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
- 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.
- 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.
- Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
- 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.
- Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
- Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.
- Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
- T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.
- Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
- Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
- 2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.
- A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.
- Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.
- 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.
- Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
- Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.
- Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use.
- An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information.
- Detailed list of considerations.
- An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of internet resources.
- Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.
- Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.
- Addresses the question of whether or not consumers are well equipped to make informed decisions about the accuracy of information in technical fields such as health or finance.
- Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.
- Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
- 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
- Article by Donald T. Hawkins, September 1999. Compares "traditional" vs. web publishing and notes how the lack of a review process for web materials can lead to problems for the unwary. Has a site evaluation checklist and an additional reading
- 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.
- Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.
- Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity
- Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.
- [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.
- LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
- Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.
- Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.
- 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.
- A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.
- Provides a checklist and links to related materials.
- Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
- Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.
- Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.
- A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
- Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.
- 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.
- 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.
- Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
- Jana Allcock gives tips on judging the accuracy and validity of health information found using the internet.
- More than 2,600 average people were asked to rate the credibility of Web sites in 10 content areas.
- Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
- Checklist used to grade web sites.
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