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Kathy Schrock's Home Page: Abc's of Website Evaluation [Pdf]
Noted technology educator Kathy Schrock provides an alphabetical list of qualities to evaluate in judging websites. She provides example websites to look at for each quality. In addition, she gives a list of websites to use when...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Websites
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.
Arizona State University
Arizona State U.: Research Success for High School Students: Evaluating Sources
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Website Evaluation
Utilizing a graphic organizer, learners work individually and in groups to rank websites according to specific criteria.
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Monash University Library: Evaluating Web Pages
Use this guide to learn how to evaluate web pages. This concise guide also addresses why evaluation is important. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7
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Bare Bones Lesson 5: Evaluating Web Pages
Read web addresses with confidence, check the content and vital statistics and be more discriminating in your selection of web resources after you take this mini-lesson in website evaluation.
TES Global
Blendspace: Evaluating Websites
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning how to evaluate websites.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Examining Electronic Sources
This lesson helps elementary students identify the important components of web site evaluation. It includes a website evaluation question sheet.
University of California
Uc Berkeley Library: Critical Evaluation of Resources
Questions to ask yourself when determining if a source is reliable. Discusses difference between primary and secondary source. List of reference sources and links to other sites that teach you how to evaluate sources....
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Who Is Hosting This: How to Evaluate Web Resources
This is an excellent, compact guide to evaluating resources on the Internet. It breaks everything down into easy steps and tells you how to do each. Included is an infographic called 'Evaluating Web Resources: A 60 Second Guide.' It also...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Web Site Evaluation Rubric [Pdf]
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
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating Digital Information: Tutorial
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review how to evaluate digital sources. During the digital evaluation process, students are directed to analyze the following: authority, accuracy, objectivity, and currency. After the tutorial,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Interpreting Media
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When people talk about media literacy, they are talking about learning to understand what these messages really mean. This lesson will help you take a closer look at a few...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Hoax/no Hoax? Online Comprehension and Evaluation Strategies
Students use research-based comprehension strategies to read and evaluate websites, and practice analysis by comparing hoax and real websites and by identifying false or misleading information. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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Santa Rosa Library: How to Evaluate Information Resources
Tips and information about how to evaluate resources, both print and electronic. Includes information about source authority, purpose, objectivity, currency, completeness, and relevance. It includes a printable handout (top right)with...
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Ccbc Library: Evaluate It!: Evaluation Criteria
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...
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The Virtual Chase: Evaluating Information on the Web
This resource teaches researchers how to evaluate information that they find on the Internet for accuracy, authority, timeliness, and objectivity. Features include a checklist for evaluating websites, information on common...
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Web Site Evaluation
Students will evaluate the school's web site determining whether standards exist and if they have been met.
Stanford University
Stanford U.: Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
This report from the Stanford History Education Group describes the conclusions of their work in field testing a set of assessments of civic online reasoning by young people from the middle school to the college level. Middle school...
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Childnet International: Digizen: Social Networking Evaluation Chart
This checklist is designed to help review Social Networking Services. The information is from 2008 so parts may be outdated. The information is publicly available from service providers' websites (e.g., Terms of Use and Privacy Policy),...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Workshop: Assessment, Evaluation, and Curriculum Redesign
This site features information on a workshop for assessment, evaluation, and curriculum redesign. Teachers will benefit from the explanations and information provided through these examples.
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U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: usability.gov
A one-stop resource for government-compiled information on how to develop websites that boost their usability and accessibility based on proven methods of design and audience analysis. With many, many how-tos, such as how to write for...
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 9. Search Strategies
In this learning module, students learn how to: use Michigan eLibrary, boolean logic, and dictionary.com; use search engines; choose reputable websites; cite sources; and differentiate between real and fake information. Includes an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Identifying High Quality Sites
Learn how to "test before you trust" the sites and information found on the Web in this lesson plan and student handout from Common Sense Education. Assessing what you find on the Web is an essential skill for today's middle schoolers....