Research-Evaluating+Information

This page contains resources for helping educational researchers to evaluate the accuracy, authority, coverage, currency, quality, and relevance of the information they find during the process of reviewing the literature.


 * **[|A Policymaker's Primer on Educational Research]**- A guide to understanding, evaluating, and using educational research. user:chericem1


 * **[|Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask]** - A nicely organized page from Berkeley that can be quickly skimmed. It outlines 5 key considerations for evaluating the credibility of a web page. A list of questions accompanies each consideration, along with implications user:chericem1


 * **[|The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly] -** A helpful list of criteria (formatted as a webquest) that you can use to evaluate the accuracy, authority, coverage, currency, and objectivity of a web page, along with examples user:chericem1


 * **[| 21st Century Literacy Information Fluency Project: Evaluation Wizard]** - This handy little online evaluation wizard will lead you, step-by-step, through a series of evaluation checklists to help you determine whether or not the information sources you are using are credible and of high quality. Explore the rest of the site for a wide variety of [|downloadable materials] and [|quality resources], including a series of well-designed micromodules on a wide variety of tech-related subjects—everything from browsers and bias to "nyms." Each module includes great online pre- and post-tests user:chericem1


 * **[|Webpage Evaluation Checklist]** - A one-page checklist that you can use to evaluate the credibility of a web page. It corresponds nicely with the Evaluating Webpages site from Berkeley (mentioned above) and serves as a nice outline of that information. user:chericem1

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