 General
Evaluation Websites
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- Accessible
web design - key information from the RNIB to
help understand web design issues
- Accessible
Web Page Design - key list of links &
resources to ensure good practice including sites for
testing & for graphics
- Bibliography
on Evaluating Internet Resources - from VT
university libraries, includes internet & print
resources & useful listservs (June 1999)
- Bruce
Leland's Web - includes sections on evaluating
web sources, evaluation guide, plagiarism & the web
(adapted for the 1998 Computers & Writing
Conference)
- CAST
- Bobby - a useful web-based tool that analyzes
web pages for their accessibility to people with
disabilities, includes latest international guidelines,
organised into priority areas, with explanations for the
detailed analysis
- Conferencing
on the web - choosing & evaluating
conferencing software, reviews & articles, including
links to educational conferencing & moderating
online discussions
- Critical
Evaluation Information - Kathy Schrock's Guide for
Educators - guides for teachers in schools
(elementary, middle, secondary levels (US), including
surveys, articles, links to other sites
- E-Publishing
& Information Quality - academic articles on
electronic publishing & information, from the World
Wide Web Virtual Library
- Evaluating
Information Found on the Internet - basic
criteria for evaluating all forms of information &
how they apply to the Internet, including authorship,
publishing body, point of view or bias, referral to
other sources, verifiability, currency & documenting
electronic sources
- Evaluating
Internet Research Resources - comprehensive
advice on information evaluation, including the CARS
Checklist (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness,
Support)
- Evaluation
of information sources - large list of internet
sources, at all levels, including evaluating for study
and research, evaluating for specific sectors, part of
the WWW Virtual Library, updated regularly and a key
resource.
- Evaluating
Quality on the Net - issues relating to
searching as well as content & design, current state
of evaluation tools on the Internet, review of main
search engines & directories & useful tips, from
a US librarian perspective
- Evaluation
of online resources - basic guidelines, includes
more links to evaluation sites, from University of
Wisconsin (US site)
- How
to Critically Analyze Information Sources -
initial appraisal & content analysis
- Information
Quality WWW Virtual Library - key site for links
to quality, evaluation & maintenance of
"factual/scholarly" networked information
systems, including e-publishing, guidelines &
standards, ethics & netiquette and more
- Information
Quality & Standards Truisms - detailed
suggestions for designing & maintaining Intranet as
well as Internet sites (another section of the WWW
Virtual Library)
- Internet
Content Rating Association (ICRA) - The Internet
Content Rating Association is an international,
independent organization that empowers the public,
especially parents, to make informed decisions about
electronic media by means of the open & objective
labelling of content. The Internet Content Rating
Association does not rate internet content - the content
providers do that, using the ICRA system. ICRA makes no
value judgement about sites.
- Internet
Detective - excellent interactive tutorial on
evaluating information for individuals &
organisations, uses cookies & includes refresher
quizzes & a bibliography, from Netskills
- Quality
Information Checklist - UK guide to checking
information quality for young people plus teacher's
guide
- Resource
Selection and Information Evaluation - checking
availability, location, accuracy & reliability
(1997)
- Ten
Cs for Evaluating Internet Resources - content,
credibility, critical thinking, copyright, citation,
continuity, censorship, connectivity, comparability,
context
- Thinking
Critically about WWW resources - key site with
clear bullet points on range of site criteria including
equal opportunities issues
- Thinking
Critically about Discipline-Based World Wide Web
Resources - similar advice related to research
based resources
- Web
Accessibility Initiative - international
guidelines, news, resources
- Web
Page Evaluation Criteria - scoring system for
ranking web sites with detailed checklists
- Why
we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet
- basic principles & links to further advice &
theories
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