Choice Framework Developed to evaluate the quality of health-related websites aimed primarily at online health consumers. Evaluation criteria fall under the headings of Credibility, Content, Disclosure, Links, Design, Interactivity, Caveats and Differentiation.
Webpage Evaluation for Librarians Checklist and examples of what to look for, how to think, related links, and examples of deliberately misleading webpages.
Evaluating Internet Research Sources Guidelines for evaluating Internet sources, including a checklist to help assure credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and supported claims.
WWW Cyberguides Created by a library media specialist, contains guides for rating the curriculum content and graphic design of web sites.
Evaluating Quality Questions to ask and tips for looking for authoritative information on the internet.
Producing Quality Web Page Content Article explains how to give a web page content the mark of quality. Conversely, it helps point out what to look for in a quality site.
Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation Categorizes problematic sites and gives many examples of each type. Ends with a section which points to sites which give people accurate information as well as warnings about hoaxes and half-true stories.
Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet Information Resources Refereed article written by Alastair Smith which surveys criteria published on the Web and in the print literature and proposes a set of criteria (a toolbox) that can be used by librarians and users to evaluate Internet information sources.
Evaluating Web Sites Seeks to provide the necessary guidelines to use to determine the quality and accuracy of the information found on the World Wide Web. A document from the University of Maryland libraries.
Information Quality Sections on gaining full access to materials which may be censored, understanding how to search, and evaluating what is found using the internet.
Web Awareness Canada Introduction to a program which provides resources about Internet Literacy for teachers, parents and librarians.
Checklist for the Evaluation of Information Printable form with hyperlinks to explanations of the criteria used, namely authority, content and scope, design and functionality.
Resource Evaluation for BIOME Detailed criteria used for selecting resources for this UK guide to biomedical information.
Webserch - Evaluate Web Resources Guide to assessing the source, the content, and the format of websites, the primary considerations being accuracy, authority, coverage, currency and objectivity. Checklists in HTML and pdf format available.
Evaluating the Quality of Web Sites Short page covering some basic points: Who is responsible? Is the URL appropriate? Who do they link to? Who links to them? Use common sense.
Web-Based Information in the Context of Higher Education Scholarly paper argues that higher education students are naïve about the problem of misinformation, believe they can identify it, and do not make extra effort to check the sources of their information. Discusses sources and causes of misinformation and how it can be combatted.
Searchpath. WNEC Library Tutorial Tutorial to help learn how to find and critically evaluate information resources. Sponsored by Western Michigan University Libraries.
Evaluation of Information Sources Contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet.
The Web Credibility Project Part of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, their goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. With information, papers, and related links.
Evaluating World Wide Web Sites Instructions for completing a form assessing authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, and coverage.
Viewing Results and Evaluating Quality Questions and criteria to cover. Part of a larger tutorial on effective web searching for college students, written by a research librarian.
Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation Presentation given in 1998. Covers why evaluation of web resources is necessary, and gives criteria for scrutinizing web materials. Provides links to many related and supporting sites.
Internet Detective A free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research, produced by the University of Bristol and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Evaluating Public Websites A brief instruction how to use the linked, one page PDF form to evaluate sites. The form results generates an overall numeric rating with an indication of acceptable or unacceptable for use. The focus of the form is on information quality, not appearance or web design.
