Resources for Evaluating Web Sites

    Critical Thinking

UCLA College Library Instruction: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources by Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library.  Questions to be answered about aspects of web sources.  Standard reference.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
 

UCLA College Library Instruction: Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based WWW Resources by Esther Grassian, UCLA College Library.  Companion to above, specific to more narrowly focused web sites. http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/discipline.htm
 

 

    Evaluation Criteria--Lists

Criteria for Evaluating Information by Tamarack Design: The Research Online website is a research assistant tool designed for students as a guide through the research process.
http://www.netfx.iom.net/~tamarack/research/record/evaluate/criteria.htm

Web Evaluation: Criteria by Susan E. Beck, Instruction Coordinator, New Mexico State University Library  http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

Evaluating Web Sites by Michael Engle, Cornell University Libraries
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/webreview.html#eval





    Evaluation Criteria and more

Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander & Marsha Ann Tate, Widener University.  Web resource evaluation modules with teaching materials and evaluation checklists.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm

Why We Need to Evaluate What We Find on the Internet by D. Scott Brandt, Technology Training Librarian, Purdue University Libraries. Rationale for evaluating and criteria.
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources by Susan E. Beck, Instruction Coordinator, New Mexico State University Library. Examples, criteria, suggestions, bibliography.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/eval.html


Additional Resources

Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources, Nicole Auer, Library Instruction Coordinator, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  Lengthy webliography/bibliography of internet and print resources and useful listservs.
http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM


Links to Additional Sites with Web Evaluation Materials by Jan Alexander & Marsha Ann Tate, Widener University. Brief source list, much overlap with previous two.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/cklstlnk.htm
 


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