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A few search techniques, using engines like Google, that you can use to check the authority of a
website.
http://www.ohiou.edu/esl/help/evalTips.html
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Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet
[Book review.] Web of Deception offers exposé of the varied types of chicanery, fraud and
misinformation that's rife on the Internet -- and what to do if you get stung by it.
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160991
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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.
http://www.life.uiuc.edu/edtech/evaluate.html
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ISI Web Site Selection Criteria
Thomson ISI sells a product called "Current Web Contents" which inclues, in part, a
premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites. This is how sites are selected for inclusion,
and how they're evaluated.
http://www.isinet.com/essays/selectionofmaterialforcoverage/23.html/
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Contentbank.org - The Search for High-Quality Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Communities: Evaluating and Producing What's Needed
Research and recommendations to encourage the creation of low-barrier content and the careful
evaluation of existing content to ensure that low-income and underserved individuals find a wide
array of the online resources they want most. An Issue Brief and Action Plan by The Children's
Partnership.
http://www.contentbank.org/addition_research.asp
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Six Quests for The Electronic Grail: Current Approaches to Information Quality in WWW Resources
T. Matthew Ciolek reviews programming, procedural, structuring, bibliographical, evaluative and
finally, organisational approaches to the quality of online information.
http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/six-quests1996.html
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Webcredibility.org - 10 Guidelines for Web Credibility
Ten guidelines for building the credibility of a web site based on three years of research.
http://www.webcredibility.org/guidelines/
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Webserch - Evaluate Web Resources
Guide to assessing the source, the content, and the format of websites, the primary considerations
being accuracy, authority, coverage, currency and objectivity. Checklists in HTML and pdf format
available.
http://www.clubi.ie/webserch/resources/
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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.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue16/digital/
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National Network of Libaries of Medicine - Evaluating Health Web Sites
Jana Allcock gives tips on judging the accuracy and validity of health information found using the
internet.
http://nnlm.gov/scr/conhlth/evalsite.htm
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
Lists evaluation criteria with links to actual pages that illustrate each point. The examples page
can be used by teachers for an in-class activity. Also includes a bibliography and suggestions for
teaching web evaluation.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
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Evaluating the Quality of Internet Information Resources
Criteria and procedures to assist students, teachers, and other users in evaluating the quality of
Internet information.
http://it2.coe.uga.edu/Faculty/gwilkinson/webeval.html
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Evaluating Web Resources
Concepts and questions to consider when looking at websites as a source of information.
http://libweb.sonoma.edu/assistance/eval.html
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HealthWeb Selection Methodology & Guidelines
An outline designed to provide HealthWeb participants uniform guidelines for selecting resources
to be added to that directory.
http://healthweb.org/guidelines.cfm
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Emory MedWeb: Guidelines for inclusion of sites in MedWeb
Five criteria used by Medweb to build their directory.
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/history.htm
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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.
http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/
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Information Quality WWW Virtual Library - Evaluation of Information Sources
Large annotated and hyperlinked list of pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources,
particularly those on the Internet. Maintained by Alastair Smith.
http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm
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Johns Hopkins University Library - Information and Its Counterfeits: Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation
A document to help the reader to be able to distinguish real information from its three lookalikes.
http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/counterfeit.html
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Johns Hopkins University Library - Evaluating Internet information
Detailed list of considerations.
http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/
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University of Alberta Libraries - Critical Evaluation of Resources on the Internet
Bulleted list of questions to review while checking out a website.
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/criticalevaluation/
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Librarians' Index to the Internet - Selection Criteria
Describes how sites are chosen for listing in lii.org.
http://lii.org/search/file/pubcriteria
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Online Technomonitor - What is Credible Information?
Article by Donald T. Hawkins, September 1999. Compares "traditional" vs. web publishing
and notes how the lack of a review process for web materials can lead to problems for the unwary.
Has a site evaluation checklist and an additional reading list.
http://www.infotoday.com/online/OL1999/technomonitor9.html
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Consumer Reports: e-Ratings - What We Look For
Expectations for site credibility, usability, and content.
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?WebLogicSession=P9VN6U9v2ZeILeW6GjX2zjTIBlAwQR....
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Consumer WebWatch
Consumers WebWatch, a project of Consumers Union, publishes research and journalism on credibility
issues that matter to consumers, and recommends Web-wide guidelines to address widespread problems
of credibility and trust.
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/
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Consumer WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web
More than 2,600 average people were asked to rate the credibility of Web sites in 10 content areas.
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/news/report3_credibilityresearch/stanfordPTL_abstract.htm
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Consumer WebWatch: How Consumers and Experts Rate Credibility on the Web
Addresses the question of whether or not consumers are well equipped to make informed decisions
about the accuracy of information in technical fields such as health
or finance.
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/news/report3_credibilityresearch/slicedbread_abstract.htm
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An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation
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.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/wp/credibility/index.html
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Web Credibility Project
An effort of the Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University, to understand what leads people
to believe what they find on the Web.
http://credibility.stanford.edu/
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Resource Evaluation for BIOME
Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
http://biome.ac.uk/guidelines/eval/
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Checklist for the Evaluation of Information
Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and
scope, design and functionality.
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Billie_Peterson/checklist.html
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Evaluating Web Resources | Checklist for a News Web Page
Techniques for evaluating the quality of information found on news Web pages.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/news.htm
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Evaluating Web Resources | Checklist for an Informational Web Page
Techniques for evaluating the quality of information found on informational Web pages.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/inform.htm
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Evaluating Web Resources | Checklist for an Advocacy Web Page
Techniques for evaluating the quality of information found on advocacy Web pages.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/advoc.htm
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Evaluating Web Resources: Checklist for a Business/Marketing Web Page
Techniques for evaluating the quality of information found on business/marketing Web pages.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/busmark.htm
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Web Page Evaluation Checklist
PDF document intended to be printed to use as a quick tool for page evaluation.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm.pdf
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Yahooligans! - Evaluating Web Sites
Guide to evaluating sites by the "Four A's" - Accessible, Accurate, Appropriate, and
Appealing.
http://www.yahooligans.com/tg/evaluatingwebsites.html
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Web Awareness Canada
Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents
and librarians.
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/web_awareness/index.cfm
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Information Quality
Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search,
and evaluating what is found using the internet.
http://ils.unc.edu/~fents/310/
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Web Page Evaluation Criteria
Rubric for evaluating the content, organization, language, presentation, and technical workings of
a website.
http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfmgb/web.htm
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UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about Discipline-Based WWW Resources
Points to consider regarding web sites for subject disciplines.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/discipline.htm
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Evaluating Web Sites
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.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UES/evaluate.html
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Consumer WebWatch: Web Credibility Guidelines
Five general guidelines for improving credibility on the web. Includes specific guidelines for
the search engine, hotel booking, and independent airline booking industries.
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/bestpractices/
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Evaluating Credibility of Information
An essay that considers peer review, author's credentials, writing style, and plausibility of
information.
http://www.rbs0.com/credible.pdf
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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask
Includes checklist form (PDF) that can be used to analyze web sites and pages.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
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Research Edge: Citing and Evaluating the Internet
Tutorial from the University of Wollongong Library.
http://www.library.uow.edu.au/helptraining/tutorials/resedge/05/citeeval/index.html
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Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources
A list of Internet and print resources, with links to example sites and newsgroups.
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/evaluate/evalbiblio.html
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Evaluating Information on the Web
Online tutorial covering authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
http://www.library.drexel.edu/research/tutorials/webeval/contents.html
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Don't Believe Everything You Read: Ideas for Reading Critically
Short pdf file. Suggestions for evaluating anything you read.
http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/pdf/critical-reading.pdf
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Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources
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.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html
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QUICK: The Quality Information Checklist
Eight ways of checking the information on web sites.
http://www.quick.org.uk/menu.htm
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Publishers Wanted, No Experience Necessary: Information Quality on the Web
Research librarian elaborates on five characteristics of superior web sites: timeliness,
expediency, accuracy, objectivity, and authenticity
http://www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm
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Viewing Results and Evaluating Quality
Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college
students, written by a research librarian.
http://lisweb.curtin.edu.au/about/gwpersonal/searchtut/eval.html
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Critically Analyzing Information Sources
Principles applicable to physical information sources as well as web-based ones.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm
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Validating Web-Based Information
Short article summarizing the issues and pointing to many related resources.
http://wwwtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/validating.htm
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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.
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm
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Evaluating Electronic Resources
Suggested criteria for evaluating Web resources for e-libraries.
http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibraries/eval.html
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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.
http://www.walthowe.com/pubweb/qcontent/qcontent.html
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Evaluating Quality
Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/quality.html
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Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
Checklists, instructions, tools and links to legal and factual research.
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/
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Evaluate your Sources
Checklist for judging reliability of information. Links to other sites about the topic.
http://www.library.vcu.edu/help/evaluate.html
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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.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
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UCLA College Library: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources
Teaches the user how to think critically about World Wide Web resources.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm
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WWW Cyberguides
Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and
graphic design of web sites.
http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html
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Evaluating Internet Research Sources
Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility,
accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
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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.
http://www.webcredibility.org/
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Evaluation of Information Sources
Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the
Internet.
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
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Web Page Evaluation
Provides a checklist and links to related materials.
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/teachtech/search2.htm
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Caught in the Web
A journalist's guide to web searches. Covers when to use the library, obstacles to finding what
you need on the web (including unreliable information), tips for searching, and links to
content-rich sites.
http://newslink.org/web/
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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.
http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/checs98.html
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Resource Selection and Information Evaluation
Three questions to answer while evaluating information and resources.
http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~janicke/Evaluate.html
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Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net
LLRX.com article providing strategies and tools to assist in evaluating Website content.
http://www.llrx.com/features/verifying.htm
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How To Evaluate A Web Site
Checklists and sample sites, from LLRX.com.
http://www.llrx.com/features/webeval.htm
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Web Page Evaluation Worksheet
Checklist used to grade web sites.
http://www.duke.edu/~de1/evaluate.html
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Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation, and Research Strategies
A guide to Web research and evaluation strategies, written for first year rhetoric and composition
students.
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/
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Internet Detective
An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of internet resources.
http://sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
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Webpage Evaluation for Librarians
Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of
deliberately misleading webpages.
http://www.lib.montana.edu/~bcoon/web-eval.html
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Choice Framework
Developed to evaluate the quality of health-related websites aimed primarily at online health
consumers. Evaluation criteria fall under the headings of Credibility, Content, Disclosure, Links,
Design, Interactivity, Caveats and Differentiation.
http://www.geocities.com/choiceframework/
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Using a Web Site With Your Classes
Looks at what teachers need consider before sharing a web site with students in their classrooms.
http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/web_classes/
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Evaluating Web Resources
Modules for evaluating all manner of sites. Includes questions and criteria lists, plus links to
example pages for discussion.
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm
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10 C's For Evaluating Internet Sources
Criteria to consider when evaluating Internet resources.
http://www.uwec.edu/library/Guides/tencs.html
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Evaluating Quality on the Net
Criteria and indicators for evaluating information found on sites, their quality, and reliability.
http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
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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.
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
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Evaluating Web Sites
A brief introduction to the World Wide Web as a source of information, and evaluating sites for
educational content.
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~pstohrer/eval.html
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Evaluating Internet Resources
Bullet point notes of strategies and factors to consider when evaluating resources.
http://library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Critical Evaluation Surveys
A series of website evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school
levels, plus many links of website evaluation.
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
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Evaluating Websites
Developed for use in college courses on website design and evaluation; comprehensive information on
issues and methods.
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/WebEval/webeval.htm
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Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses
This site contains a list of articles from librarians and other information specialists on Web
evaluations. In addition, a checklist for evaluating a Web site of as a potential education
resource is included.
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html
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