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ABCs of Web Evaluation
http://kathyschrock.com/abceval/index.htm

Kathy Schrock gives sound advice and guidance on her page, complete with handouts in pdf format and with bogus sites for practice.

Evaluating Web Pages: A WebQuest
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/evalwebstu.html

Joyce Valenza created a useful tool to use with high school students, adding suggestions for elementary and middle school students.

Evaluating Web Pages - Duke University Guide to Library Research
http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm

Duke’s comprehensive research and evaluation pages may be appealing for the high school students.

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - UC Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

The form provided is useful for high school but the essay, “Rationale for Evaluating What You Find on the Web” is excellent for teachers in particular.

Evaluation Rubrics for Websites - Loogootee Elementary West
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/edu/evaltr.htm

The site provides tools to enable students, at various academic levels, to evaluate and create websites based on their content, design, and credibility.

ICYouSEE: T is for Thinking
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/Training/hottbib.html

John R. Henderson at Ithaca College devised a presentation for students to discriminate when using web pages and other resources. Critical thinking is the operative phrase for the advice he renders.

Internet Quality WWW Virtual Library
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html

This page contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. It is intended to be particularly useful to librarians and others who are selecting sites to include in an information resource guide, or informing users as to the qualities they should use in evaluating Internet information.

Sample Evaluation Forms - Virginia Tech
http://www.lib.vt.edu/research/evaluate/evalbiblio.html#forms

VT’s “Bibliography for Evaluating Web Information” provides an interactive module for critically thinking about free searching on the web. In addition, there are a number of sample web evaluation forms, bibliographic references, and links to a number of web sites to put evaluation into practice.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

New Mexico State University Library mounted a page of criteria along with selected bogus web sites.

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Pennsylvania Department of Education

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Last updated: 20 February 2003