General Evaluation

• Evaluating Web Pages: Experience WHY it's important 
  Questions to ask, why evaluation is important, and an exercise.
• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages 
  Chart for evaluation of web documents.
• Evaluating Web Pages 
  How to evaluate authority, purpose, currency, and objectivity.
• Evaluating Web Pages-Mansfield Library 
  Types of web pages, criteria for evaluation, and domains.
• Criteria for evaluation of Internet Information Resources 
  Many concepts to look for in a web page.
• Evaluating Web Resources 
  Evaluation of advocacy, business, news, informational, and personal web pages: Includes teaching material and web page examples.
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Or, Why it's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources 
  Examples, suggestions, and evaluation criteria.
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet 
  Discussion of important points when evaluating web pages.
• Practical Steps in Evaluating Internet Resources 
  Discusses authorship, publisher, and currency.
• The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents from the American Library Association 
  Evaluation criteria for parents.
• Evaluating Internet Research Sources 
  Evaluating with the CARS Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, and Support).
• ICYouSee: T is for Thinking 
  Explanation and activities.
• How to Critically Analyze Information Sources 
  Discusses initial appraisal and content analysis about information sources.
• Internet Detective 
  Interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources; Requires registration.
• Ten C's for evaluating Internet Sources 
  Questions to ask when evaluating.
• Critical Evaluation of Resources 
  Discussion of suitability, authority, and other indicators.
• An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation 
  Why it is necessary to evaluate web pages and how to do it.
• The ABC's of Evaluating a Web Site
  PowerPoint presentation about web evaluation.
• WebSerch: the Web Research Resource: Evaluate Web Resources 
  Comprehensive list of questions to ask when evaluating websites; Includes printable checklists in HTML and PDF.

Evaluating Websites for trickery

• Lies, Damned Lies, & Web Pages 
  Article about how to detect hoaxes.
• Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet: Recognizing Technical Trickery 
  How to avoid the outright hoaxes.
• Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet: Groups that Alert the Public to Internet Fraud, Fanaticism and Bad Information 
  List of sites that police the Internet.

Evaluation Sites for the K-12 environment

• QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist 
  Checklist with explanation, student quizzes, and teacher's guide.
• Evaluating Web Pages: A Webquest 
  Activity to practice evaluation.
• Using a Website With Your Classes: What's all the hype? 
  How to evaluate a website before using it with your class.  
• Evaluating Webpages 
  How to evaluate educational sites.

Evaluation Rubrics

• ED's Oasis Evaluation Center 
  Contains evaluation forms for teachers and students.
• What a Site! 
  Evaluation worksheets for full web courses, course materials, web activities, and web resources.
• Information Quality Tool: Beginner's Guide 
  Radio button form that returns results in a printable form.
• WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation 
  Checklist for teachers to use to evaluate web sites.
• Comparing and Evaluating Web Information Sources 
  Definitions to assist in evaluation of web sources; Includes chart.
• Website Investigator 
  Rubric for primary students.
• Web Page Evaluation Worksheet 
  Form for evaluating web sites.
• Evaluation Rubrics for Web Sites 
  Rubrics for primary, intermediate, and secondary grades.
• The DISCERN Instrument 
  Rubric for evaluating health web sites.
• Review template by Infofilter 
  Template for website review.
• JITT: Site Evaluation Form 
  Checklist with explanation.

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