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Strategies and Resources to Help Students Evaluate Web-Based Information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Linda K. Brown
Linda K. Brown*
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Baltimore County Public Schools
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When asked to gather information for any type of research project, books are the last place many of our students want to look, unless forced to do so because print sources are required as part of the assignment. The research tool of this “post-literate” generation is the computer, and their most frequently used source of information is the internet. In fact, using the internet seems to be the best way to keep my students engaged in any extensive, or ongoing, research project.

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Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Summer 2009 , pp. 41 - 47
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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2009

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End Notes

1 Also see the following sites. http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/janeWalburn/examples.htm, http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/fact_and_opinion/factsheet.shtml, http://oldwww.ru.ac.za/library/infolit/view.htm, http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html, http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=fact+vs.+opinion&rating=3

2 With less able students, or to save time, one might provide a number of examples and let students categorize the examples, and explain the reasons for their placement by using the criteria that I provided.

3 There are many excellent sites that provide criteria for evaluation websites, as well as definitions and examples of the criteria. Among the most helpful are the following: http://copia.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/webcrit.html, http://www.princeton.edu/~rbivens/research/sources/webcrit.html. The Widener library site also provides a tutorial at http://www3.widener.edu/Academics/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/ as well as checklists for evaluating several of the various types of web pages. See also http://curriculalessons.suite101.com/article.cfm/evaluating_internet_sources, and http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsitesforkids/greatwebsites.cfm.

4 http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/evalbiblio.html

5 http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/eval.html

6 http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/resources/guides/instructors/teaching_with_IT.asp

7 Ibid.

8 Hawkins, Donald T.. Technomonitor: What is Credible Information? In ONLINE Magazine, September 1999. http://web.archive.Org/web/20041020033059/http://www.infotoday.com/online/OL1999/technomonitor9.htmlGoogle Scholar

9 http://vlib.org/

10 http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/EVALN/EVALN.HTM

11 Ibid.

12 http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/index.cfm

13 Ibid.

14 http://infosearcher.typepad.com/infosearcher/resources/webevaluation.html

15 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

16 http://www.ithaca.edu/library/training/think.html

17 http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html

18 http://147.129.226.1/library/research/AIDSFACTS.htm

19 http://www.csmngt.com/human_growth_hormone.htm

20 A WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites at http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/evalwebstu.html

21 http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

22 http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

23 http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html, http://aumnicat.aum.edu/internet/evaluatewebform.pdf, http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/evaluating/, http://www.library.ualberta.ca/instruction/science/evalweb.pdf, and http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html