Evaluation of the Web Sources

The following two sites give some suggestions and guidelines on website evaluation. When you surf the internet, keep these guidelines in mind.

A. Evaluating Sources by Deborah Healey
There are too many website and gradable resources insisting in the world wild web. This long article gives specifically directions and suggestion about how to select authenticable resource on the internet. It is really helpful when the students like us need to search for the real academic resources with high credibility for study purposes.

B. Evaluating Internet Research Sources by Robert Harris
This useful article provides various contents from the types of Internet information to the ways of checking the authenticity of Internet information, including the diversity of information, the ways of screening information, the source selection tip, the ways of evaluating information, the CARS checklist for information quality, and the CAFÉ Advice for living with information.

C. Rubrics for Evaluating Websites
a. for early primary grades
b. for 2nd and 3rd graders
c. for intermediate learners
This website provides three kinds of evaluation charts (web / Internet information use only) for different levels of language learners. These three useful evaluation charts can be adopted later when we are going to teach these three grades of students.