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- 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.
- 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.
- Critically
Analyzing Information Sources - Principles applicable to physical
information sources as well as web-based ones.
- 10 C's For
Evaluating Internet Sources - Criteria to consider when evaluating
Internet resources.
- Don't
Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically - Short
pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
- Evaluate your
Sources - Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links
to other sites about the topic.
- Evaluating
Electronic Resources - Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources
for e-libraries.
- Evaluating Internet
Research Sources - Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including
a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and
supported claims.
- Evaluating
Internet Resources - Bullet point notes of strategies and factors
to consider when evaluating resources.
- Evaluating Quality
- Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information
on the internet.
- Evaluating Quality
on the Net- Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found
on sites, their quality, and reliability.
- 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.
- 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.
- Evaluation
of Information Sources - Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating
information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
- 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.
- 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.
- Internet
Detective - An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of
internet resources.
- 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.
- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators- A series of website evaluation surveys,
one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus
many links of website evaluation.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- UCLA
College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources - Teaches
the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
- Using
a Web Site With Your Classes - Looks at what teachers need consider
before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
- Validating
Web-Based Information - Short article summarizing the issues and
pointing to many related resources.
- 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.
- Web Page Evaluation
- Provides a checklist and links to related materials.
- Web Searching,
Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies - A guide to Web research
and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition
students.
- 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.
- Webpage
Evaluation for Librarians - Checklist and examples of what to look
for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading
webpages.
- WWW Cyberguides
- Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating
the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
- How To Evaluate
A Web Site - Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com. (December
2, 2002)
- Getting It Right:
Verifying Sources on the Net - LLRX.com article providing strategies
and tools to assist in evaluating Website content. (March 1,
2002)
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