More Guidelines for Evaluating Websites:

If you are evaluating websites and need guidelines with a specific focus, use the annotated list below as a starting point. Click on a link to go to the guidelines.

10 C’s for Evaluating Internet Sources:

http://www.uwec.edu/Library/Guides/tencs.html

(University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire criteria for evaluation developed from 1991 to 1996, revised 2001)

A Multicultural Model for Evaluating Educational Web Sites:

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/net/comps/model.html

(These multicultural evaluation guidelines from 1999 are applicable to any level or category)

American Library Association Selection Criteria:

http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/criteria.html

(1997 criteria for a great website – they used these criteria to identify more than 700 sites)    

Cabrillo College’s Evaluating Internet Sites:

http://libwww.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/html/about/jsworksheet-3.html

http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/~tsmalley/evalintres.html

(brief, linked evaluation guidelines from 2000, with multiple links to thought-provoking websites)  

Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources:

http://library.usm.maine.edu/guides/webeval.html

(U. of Southern Maine Library’s 2000 evaluation checklist with research focus)  

Cyber-Guide Ratings for Content Evaluation:

http://www.cyberbee.com/guides.html

(useful format for evaluation from K-12 perspective)

Evaluating Sources:

http://osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/july1996.html

(evaluation guidelines, updated Feb 2002 from 1996, from English Language Institute at Oregon State)

Evaluating Website Content:

http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/evaluate.htm

(University of St Thomas ISS-Learning Center’s 2000 evaluation guidelines with links to multiple humorous “examples of the problem” some websites present)

  Finding and Evaluating Adult ESL Resources on the World Wide Web:

http://www.cal.org/ncle/digests/findingQA.htm

(National Center for ESL Literacy Education ERIC digest from 2000)    

How to Evaluate A Web Page:

http://manta.library.colostate.edu/howto/evalweb.html

(Colorado State University Library’s evaluation guidelines and checklist from 2002)    

Information Literacy: The Web Is Not An Encyclopedia

http://www.inform.umd.edu/LibInfo/literacy/

(2001 revised from 1996, evaluation guidelines from University of Maryland’s Office of Information Technology)  

Internet Information Evaluation Form:

http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/kmoliver/webeval/form2.pdf

(2000 adapted from 1998, Likert-scale rating form for websites)

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators: Critical Evaluation Information

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

(Annotated list of evaluation guidelines and numerous links to websites for critical thinking, from 1995-2002)

net.TUTOR Evaluation of Web Sites:

http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/les1/index.html

(brief evaluation guidelines from Ohio State University Libraries, 1997-2001)

Techniques for Evaluating American Indian Web Sites:

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ecubbins/webcrit.html

(evaluation guidelines with anti-bias focus, updated 2000 from 1997)

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly:

http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html

(Detailed evaluation criteria for websites from New Mexico State University, updated 2002 from 1997, with each criterion linked to sample sites for more in-depth evaluation)

The Virtual Chase: Assess The Quality of Information at a Website:

http://www.virtualchase.com/howto/assess_quality.html

(2002 evaluation checklist from a legal research perspective)

Thinking Critically About WWW Sources:

http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

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