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How-To Articles | Evaluating Web Sites-Five Basic Criteria. Five criteria for evaluating Web pages. Evaluating Online Resources. 4 Strategies for Reviewing Internet Search Results | Technology Integration - TechnoKids BLOG. Students need strategies for reviewing Internet search results. My students consider themselves to be Internet experts. However, in my short time working with the class here is what I have discovered – they are not.

They understand how to select search terms to find the information they need. However, when students are reviewing the list of search results their first and only strategy is to click on the first item at the top of the page. I am on Assignment 3 of TechnoJourney. The good news is that the Grade 3/4 students are able to select keywords to find resources on the Internet. I believe one of the reasons they click on the first item is because they are applying the same reading skills they use with a book. Since the students are eight or nine years old, their reading skills are limited. Strategies for Reviewing Internet Search Results Skim the Title: Typically, the title is similar for almost all the items on the first page of search results.

About Christa Love. Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask. 1. What can the URL tell you? Techniques for Web Evaluation : 1. Before you leave the list of search results -- before you click and get interested in anything written on the page -- glean all you can from the URLs of each page. 2. 2. 1. INSTRUCTIONS for Truncating back a URL: In the top Location Box, delete the end characters of the URL stopping just before each / (leave the slash).

Continue this process, one slash (/) at a time, until you reach the first single / which is preceded by the domain name portion. 3. Check the date on all the pages on the site. 3. 1. What kinds of publications or sites are they? Are they real? 3. Expect a journal article, newspaper article, and some other publications that are recent to come from the original publisher IF the publication is available on the web. Look at the bottom of such articles for copyright information or permissions to reproduce. 4. 1. A. Type or paste the URL into alexa.com's search box. B. 1. 2. 5. 1. 2. WHY? How To Evaluate a Website - Basic Evaluation Checklist.

The Web has become the go-to source for many people doing all sorts of research these days. However, judging the truthfulness of information that you find online can be a bit problematic, especially if you’re looking for credible material you can cite in a research paper or academic project. Fiction and reality are not the same thing, but on the Web, it’s getting increasingly hard to tell the difference. To Cite or Not to Cite - That is the Question So how do you divide the wheat from the chaff?

How can you tell if something you’re reading is true and reliable and worthy of a footnote? Who’s In Charge? Determining the authority of any particular site is especially vital if you’re planning on using it as a source for an academic paper or research project. Are You Telling Me The Truth? Eventually while you're on the Web, you will run into information that is not entirely true. Can I easily figure out who wrote the information? Are You Selling Me Something? It's Just Common Sense. Evaluating Web Resources. Detecting Lies and Staying True.

Evaluating Internet Research Sources. Robert Harris Version Date: January 21, 2015 Previous: December 27, 2013; November 6, 2013; Nov. 22, 2010 and June 15, 2007 "The central work of life is interpretation. " --Proverb Introduction: The Diversity of Information Adopting a Skeptical Attitude You might have heard of the term information warfare, the use of information as a weapon.

Now, as I just said above, there is a lot of high quality information available through the Internet. Unfortunately, however, there is also a large amount of misinformation (honest people mistakenly spreading false information), together with the information warfare ammunition: disinformation (dishonest people knowingly spreading false information), half truths, distortions, urban legends, fallacies, exaggerations, and plain old lies.

Getting Started: Screening Information Evaluating Information: The Tests of Information Quality The CARS Checklist for Information Quality Summary of The CARS Checklist for Research Source Evaluation Books you need: