Open Directory - Reference: Education: Instructional Technology: Evaluation: Web Site Evaluation
See also: - 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. - 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. - Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality. - Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones. - Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read. [PDF] - An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information. [PDF] - Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims. - 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. - Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet. - Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability. - Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages. - 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. - Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research. - 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. - 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. - LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content. - Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise. - Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com. - Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith. - 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. - 2001 academic conference proceedings; includes summaries (abstracts) of the accepted papers. - 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. - Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness, expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity - Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information. - Web site evaluation guide with resources and links. - 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. - Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments. - By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems. - 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. - Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions. - Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website. - Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms. - Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites. - Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians. - PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation. [PDF] - [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. (January 01, 2002) - Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use. (July 01, 1998) - T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information. (June 01, 1996)
