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Evaluating web sites & information
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General
- Bruce Leland's Web - includes sections on evaluating web sources, evaluation guide, plagiarism & the web (adapted for the 1998 Computers & Writing Conference)
- Critical Evaluation Information - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - guides for teachers in schools (elementary, middle, secondary levels (US), including surveys, articles, links to other sites
- Evaluating Internet Research Resources - comprehensive advice on information evaluation, including the CARS Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support)
- Evaluation of information sources - large list of internet sources, at all levels, including evaluating for study and research, evaluating for specific sectors. Part of the WWW Virtual Library, updated regularly and a key resource.
- Evaluating Quality on the Net - issues relating to searching as well as content & design, current state of evaluation tools on the Internet, review of main search engines & directories & useful tips, from a US librarian perspective
- Evaluation of online resources - basic guidelines, includes more links to evaluation sites, from University of Wisconsin (US site)
- Evaluating web pages: experience why it's important - exercise, questions to ask & techniques, from University of California, Berkeley
- How do people evaluate a web site's credibility - report online covering 10 content areas, Consumer WebWatch research report from Stanford University, Nov 2002
- How to Critically Analyze Information Sources - initial appraisal & content analysis
- Information Quality WWW Virtual Library - key site for links to quality, evaluation & maintenance of "factual/scholarly" networked information systems, including e-publishing, guidelines & standards, ethics & netiquette and more
- Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) - The Internet Content Rating Association is an international, independent organization that empowers the public, especially parents, to make informed decisions about electronic media by means of the open & objective labelling of content. The Internet Content Rating Association does not rate internet content - the content providers do that, using the ICRA system. ICRA makes no value judgement about sites.
- Need-based Web site design - the principles & how to develop them - useful online tutorial which explores the difference between a need-based & resource-based website & help draft a development plan for your web site based on these principles. Designed for careers & guidance advisers
- Quality Information Checklist - UK guide to checking information quality for young people plus teacher's guide
- Resource Selection and Information Evaluation - checking availability, location, accuracy & reliability (1997)
- Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility - 10 guidelines for building the credibility of a web site, based on three years of research that included over 4,500 people
- Thinking Critically about WWW resources - key site with clear bullet points on range of site criteria including equal opportunities issues
- Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web Resources - similar advice related to research based resources
- The Virtual Chase - Excellent links to a range of evaluation tools & sites. Includes a checklist for determining quality, recognising technical trickery, links to interactive tutorials & Webliography on evaluating quality in information, Internet trainers section with tips & articles, articles about Internet research, research guides, links to groups that alert the public to internet fraud, fanaticism & bad information & to relevant legal research tools & strategies.
- Why we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet - basic principles & links to further advice & theories
Health
Education, finance, careers, counselling, business, news, information, law
- Conferencing on the web - choosing & evaluating conferencing software, reviews & articles, including links to educational conferencing & moderating online discussions.
- Criteria for Career Information Internet Sites 4th Version, April 3, 1997 - discussion paper for careers services & advisers from the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance
- Cyberguides - US High School site with guide for curriculum content evaluation & website design
- Design & use of Internet-based applications in career & counselling resources & services - includes advice on design strategies, using the Internet to deliver services & testing, & consider effectiveness use of the Internet
- Experts vs Online Consumers: a Comparative Credibility Study of Health & Finance Web Sites - review of different approaches to credibility & worth of specialist websites, Oct 2002
- Guidelines for Educational Uses of Networks - links to articles & resources for teachers
- Reviewing your careers service web site - a guidance approach to careers service web site design - useful online tutorial which explores the difference between a need-based & resource-based website & help draft a development plan for your web site based on these principles. Designed for careers & guidance advisers
- The Virtual Chase - a research site for legal professionals but also very useful general information. The site includes a checklist for determining quality, recognising technical trickery, links to interactive tutorials & Webliography on evaluating quality in information, other checklists, articles about Internet research, research guides, links to groups that alert the public to internet fraud, fanaticism & bad information & to relevant legal research tools & strategies.
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