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The Web Credibility Project - 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. Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation - 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. The Internet Guide to Construction of Quality Online Resources - By Dr. T.Matthew Ciolek. Online resources relevant for evaluation, development and administration of high quality factual/scholarly networked information systems. Evaluating Quality on the Net - Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability. Using a Web Site With Your Classes - Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms. Evaluating Internet Research Sources - Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources - Contains evaluation criteria with examples that can be used by educators. Gives suggestions for successful Internet assignments. Evaluating Quality - Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet. Producing Quality Web Page Content - 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. Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation - 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. Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask - Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages. Evaluating Credibility of Information on the Internet - An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of information. Web Page Evaluation Checklist - PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation. UBC Library - Criteria for Evaluating Internet Resources - Checklist with "So What?" buttons to clarify why you'd want to have an answer to the various questions. The Good, The Bad And The Useless: Evaluating Internet Resources - Judith Edwards discusses three main aspects in the evaluation of Web resources; access, quality, and ease of use. Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites - 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. WWW Cyberguides - Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites. Checklist for the Evaluation of Information - Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality. Critically Analyzing Information Sources - Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
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