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Title: Web site evaluation

Information: Here is a list of websites that discuss criteria for website evaluation. To find these websites I went to the search engine Google athttp://www.google.com and searched by website evaluation. I also searched by website evaluation + guide. Check these out first: Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Critical Evaluation Surveys http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html Cyber Guides (Has guides for evaluating website content and design) http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html Evaluate Your Sources http://www.library.vcu.edu/help/evaluate.html Links to Additional Sites with Web Evaluation Materials: Libraries of Purdue University. Anyone can (and probably will) put anything up on the Internet http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/~techman/eval.html Ormondroyd, J., Engle, M., & Cosgrave, T. How to critically analyze information sources http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill26.htm Evaluating Quality on the Net http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html Evaluating Web Pages http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/examples.htm Hoax Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm Comparing & Evaluating Web Information Sources- The Educational Technology Journal http://www.fno.org/jun97/eval.html Many library Web pages will also have information on website evaluation. Your local or school library is a great place to find more information on this subject. Best wishes, AskNSDL Staff Last updated Sept. 30, 2004

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