Evaluating+the+Information+You+Find

This page contains resources for helping teacher-researchers to evaluate the accuracy, authority, coverage, currency, quality, and relevance of the information they find during the process of reviewing the literature.


 * **[|A Policymaker's Primer on Educational Research]**- A guide to understanding, evaluating, and using educational research. http://www.ecs.org/html/educationIssues/Research/primer/foreword.asp


 * **[|Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask]** - A nicely organized page from Berkeley that can be quickly skimmed. It outlines 5 key considerations for evaluating the credibility of a web page. A list of questions accompanies each consideration, along with implications. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html


 * **[|The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] -** A helpful list of criteria (formatted as a webquest) that you can use to evaluate the accuracy, authority, coverage, currency, and objectivity of a web page, along with examples. http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html


 * **[| 21st Century Literacy Information Fluency Project: Evaluation Wizard]** - This handy little online evaluation wizard will lead you, step-by-step, through a series of evaluation checklists to help you determine whether or not the information sources you are using are credible and of high quality. Explore the rest of the site for a wide variety of [|downloadable materials] and [|quality resources], including a series of well-designed micromodules on a wide variety of tech-related subjects—everything from browsers and bias to "nyms." Each module includes great online pre- and post-tests. http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/evaluate


 * **[|Webpage Evaluation Checklist]** - A one-page checklist that you can use to evaluate the credibility of a web page. It corresponds nicely with the Evaluating Webpages site from Berkeley (mentioned above) and serves as a nice outline of that information. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm.pdf