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10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources - http://www.uwec.edu/Library/research/guides/upload/tenCs.pdf Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=6646 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.

Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites - http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/web.asp Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.

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.

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 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 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.

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 Information on the Internet - http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/ Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.

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.

Evaluating Web Resources - http://libweb.sonoma.edu/assistance/eval.html Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.

Evaluating Web Resources - http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/ Modules for evaluating all manner of sites. Includes questions and criteria lists, plus links to example pages for discussion.

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.

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.

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.

Five Criteria For Evaluating Web Pages - http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.

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.

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! - http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/11605_12006.cfm Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.

How To Evaluate A Web Site - http://www.llrx.com/features/webeval.htm Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.

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.

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.

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.

Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/ Detailed list of considerations.

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.

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.

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.

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

Research Edge: Evaluate Information - http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/tutorials/resedge/evaluate.html Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.

Resource Evaluation for BIOME - http://biome.ac.uk/guidelines/eval/ Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.

Searchpath: WNEC Library Tutorial - http://mars.wnec.edu/~infolit/searchpath/ Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.

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.

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."

T is for Thinking - http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet - http://searchenginewatch.com/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.

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.

Web Page Evaluation Worksheet - http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm Checklist used to grade web sites.

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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