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While the Internet may allow students to obtain more information more rapidly, it provides no safeguards for the accuracy and dependability of the available information. A large amount of information that impacts our daily lives is, in fact, misinformation. To be good information consumers, and good information-based decision-makers, we need to evaluate web-based information and its sources. Students must learn to check for accuracy and authority of the information they find on the Internet.

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Checklist for an Informational Web Page

This checklist, created by a university librarian, is based on standards that librarians have traditionally applied to print and audiovisual materials.

Evaluating Web Pages

Links to examples of various concepts regarding the critical evaluation of web sites. 

Evaluating Web Sites: Tutorial

A useful tutorial on evaluating internet web sites.

Information Quality Checklist

Discusses reasons why one should critically evaluate information on the Internet and the criteria that one should consider when doing so.  Provides a useful list of questions that will help students determine the worth of any web site.

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Evaluating Web Sites

A series of evaluation surveys in PDF format, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels, designed by renowned educator, Kathy Schrock. The article titled The ABC's of Web Site Evaluation is especially useful.

Web Evaluation Tutorial

Use this brief tutorial to overview the concepts and criteria of evaluating Internet sites.  The tutorial should not take you much longer than 20 minutes.

Web Resource Evaluation Techniques 

A PowerPoint Presentation that can be downloaded and used by teachers. 
 
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