Evaluation Checklist
Evaluating Web Pages: Questions to Ask & Strategies for Getting the Answers:
An eight-point evaluation checklist from the UC Berkeley Library.
What can the URL tell you?
Who wrote the page? Is he, she, or the authoring institution a qualified authority?
Is it dated? Current, timely?
Is information cited authentic?
Does the page have overall integrity and reliability as a source?
What's the bias?
Could the page or site be ironic, like a satire or a spoof?
If you have questions or reservations, how can you satisfy them?
Critical Thinking I
| “Think for yourself and question authority.” -- Timothy Leary |
"What we find changes who we become." -- Peter Morville, Ambient Findability
Critical Thinking II
Be Critical.
Analyze and evaluate your search results. Have you found the most authoritative, accurate, objective, up-to-date, scholarly information available on your research topic?
See Research Help: Evaluating resources for information on:
- Evaluating resources
- Evaluating Web resources
- Distinguishing scholarly from non-scholarly periodicals (articles and papers)
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