A collection of resources for evaluating sources. Topics covered include knowing your sources, assessing whether a source is scholarly, the CRAAP Test (includes chart, worksheet, and website evaluation sheet), and how to identify fake news.

This site by Virtual Salt offers a great deal of information on evaluating internet sources. Gives tips on what to look for when screening information for usefulness and reliability.

The RADAR Framework can help you remember what kinds of questions you should be asking about an information source as you evaluate it for quality and usefulness in your research. The Framework can be downloaded in PDF format. Includes...

This lesson helps elementary students identify the important components of web site evaluation. It includes a website evaluation question sheet.

Use this "Weed and feed," approach to get only the best resources for your research project.

The library at the Community College of Baltimore County provides this research guide that shows you how to evaluate sources, such as websites, periodicals, and any other material you would be using for your research. Includes evaluation...

A seven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, slides, and a quiz to use while learning how to evaluate research sources.

This lesson will help students decide which sources are valid and reliable for supporting a thesis. It discusses how to evaluate books, articles, websites, and more.

The activities in this lesson will help you focus on the important features of arguments, especially on the writer (or the source) and the evidence the writer provides. That way, you can more accurately decide if an argument is valid and...

When doing research you will come across a lot of information from different types of sources. How do you decide which source to use? From tweets to newspaper articles, this tool provides a brief description of each and breaks down 6...

This lesson focuses on how to analyze sources using the C.R.A.A.P. method, how to integrate sources into your paper, and how to synthesize information from multiple sources. It provides three videos: "Researching 101: Evaluating...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This free resource is a sheet that will help students assess the credibility of an online primary source or an online secondary source.

Internet research is a fine writing tool, but can you trust the information you find? This presentation by Hope N. Tillman, Director of Libraries at Babson College, gives advice on assessing the quality and credibility of information...

You probably know that anyone can put anything on the web. You might even be aware that much information on the web is inaccurate. Some misinformation is unintentional - a result of sloppy or incomplete research. But other sites contain...

This is a two-page PDF of a rubric to use in the evaluation of websites in the quest for credible websites for research purposes. RI.11-12.7 Eval Different Media/format

We will evaluate the usefulness of sources, select sources for our research, and record bibliographic information for the sources we select. This will help us prepare our research.

This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of websites for research sources. It gives the pros and cons to using websites as sources and discusses the need to evaluate websites and what to look for.

This is from an American history course designed for teachers to enrich their knowledge and their teaching practice. This interactive is a set of nine exercises where teachers evaluate primary resources related to a specific event in...

This lesson focuses on how to find, evaluate, and use primary and secondary sources using printed and online sources. It provides practice writing activities such as examining the same topic through primary and secondary sources and...

This site explains how to evaluate the information you find in your research and provides practice exercises. It includes three sections: Evaluating the reliability of sources, Academic research on the internet, and Evaluating academic...

Resources to help students evaluate the materials they use in their research.

This page explains the need for evaluating resources and offers links to rules for evaluating primary, secondary, or tertiary resources and determining if resources are good or bad.

Learners will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...

Critical appraisal tests like CRAAP and RADAR can also be used to evaluate the credibility of news websites and the stories they produce (which often go viral on social media). Here are some more resources to help you check! (CRAAP...