Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion?
You Decide!

How critical an observer are you? Learn how to evaluate information sources by doing the following exercise.

Pick 2 Web sites from your assigned group. You will have ten minutes to examine them for evidence related to the groups's topic:

After 10 minutes, we will ask you to tell the class about your evidence.

The main questions to keep in mind are:

This exercise is based on an instructional web site created by J. Alexander and M. Tate, Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University, July 1996 and modified with the authors' permission. The original website was copyrighted by Widener University, 1996. Original checklists now have a different url: http://www.widener.edu/Tools_Resources/Libraries/Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/Original_Web_Evaluation_Materials/6160/,

Created by Esther Grassian and Diane Zwemer. Revised by Michael Kirby 10/14/99; revised by Esther Grassian 5 Jan 2006.
Permission is granted for unlimited non-commercial use of this exercise.

Comments to: College Library Web Administrator
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Updated June 13, 2006