Evaluation of sites

Overview
• Information literacy
• Web site evaluation
• Demonstration

Information literate

Process

Info literacy and the Internet
• common information and communication
tool
• research resource --students and adults
• evaluation of web sites on the Internet

Reliance upon web-based info
increasing

Web page evaluation

Another way to view evaluation

Who wrote it?

Are the aims of the site clear?

Does the site achieve its aims?

Is the site relevant to me?

Can the information be checked?

When was the site produced?

Is the information biased in any way?

Does the site tell you about choices?

Keep in mind
• Web evaluation techniques are in
development
• Technology is outpacing ability to create
standards and guidelines
• Establishing evaluation procedures will
be an ongoing evolutionary process

Resource sites
• Information Architecture for the Web
– http://eduscapes.com/arch/What’s truth got
to do with it?
• Evaluating Internet sites 101
– http://library.albany.edu/usered/webeval/

More sites
• Web evaluation checklist
– http://www.skidmore.edu/library/help/interne
tsearching/eval_list.htm
• Ten Cs for evaluating Internet sources
– http://www.uwec.edu/Library/research/guides/u
pload/tenCs.pdf