Use these tutorials to help you evaluate the websites you've discovered...
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
Approaches evaluating information on the Internet through the same criteria used by scholars to evaluate print sources. This guide from Johns Hopkins University is a classic (still in use since first published in 1996!).
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
From the tutorial series at UC-Berkeley on finding information on the Internet; includes evaluation checklist in PDF format. Also, from UC-Berkeley Critical Evaluation of Sources addresses some of the broader issues for evaluation.
ICYouSee: T is for Thinking
This guide to critical thinking offers six pointers to consider when examining Web pages – with a quiz and an assignment to test evaluation skills.
Evaluating Web Sites
Provides an easy-to-remember ABCD approach to evaluating websites (authority, bias, currency, documentation & delivery). From Harvard College Library.
Updated September 2008
