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Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.
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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.
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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.
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Nine tutorials provide guidance and practical exercises on information competence.
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Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.
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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.
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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.
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Guidance on critical analysis of information sources, distinguishing scholarly and nonscholarly periodicals, and evaluating web sites.
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Checklist of content and technical aspects to consider.
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Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
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Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
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Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
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Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
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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.
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Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
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Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
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Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.
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Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
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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.
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Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
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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.
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Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
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Discusses accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage.
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LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
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Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.
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Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
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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.
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Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.
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Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.
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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.
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Detailed list of considerations.
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A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
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Stategies and resources for teaching students to evaluate Web resources are described here.
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Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.
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2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers.
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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.
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Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity
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Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
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Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
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T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.
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"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."
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Web site evaluation guide with resources and links.
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Article written by Alan November for the September 1998 High School Principal Magazine.
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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.
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Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use.
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Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments.
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By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems.
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Eight ways of checking information on web sites.
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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.
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Lesson plan to help teachers and students with critical thinking and processing information found on websites.
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A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a website.
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Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions.
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Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
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Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.
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Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
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Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research on the internet.
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Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
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Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.
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Checklist used to grade web sites.
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A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition students.
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[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.
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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 and how it can be combatted.
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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.
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Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and Appealing.
