Evaluation Criteria for Students

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Evaluation Criteria for Students

• presented by
• Budgie Latshaw
• and Eric Englert
• Professional Development Center

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Why Evaluate Web Pages?

• Web is vast
• easy access
• good, bad and mediocre
• An open forum for publication
• no filtering process of editors
• minutes to go from someones head to the Web
• Know what to look for
• Put on your skeptics glasses
• http//www.lme.mnsu.edu/mankato/mankato.html

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Evaluation Categories

• Content
• quantity and quality
• Credibility
• expertise and objectivity
• Design
• aesthetic and technical

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Content

• Accuracy
• valid information?
• Completeness
• adequate coverage?
• Currency
• dated material?

• Readability
• flow, grammar, spelling?
• age appropriate?
• Uniqueness
• just more of the same?

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Content

• Accuracy
• valid information?
• Completeness
• adequate coverage?
• Currency
• dated material?

• Curriculum/Instruction
• age appropriate, address several learning styles,
  challenging, engaging, meets standards?
• Readability
• flow, grammar, spelling?
• Uniqueness
• just more of the same?

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Credibility

• Authority
• scientist or student?
• Affiliation
• hosted by and linked to?
• Bias/Objectivity
• facts or opinions? fair?

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Design

• Technologies
• need unusual plug-ins?
• Graphics
• content support or fluff?
• Legibility
• fonts easy to read? uncluttered?

• Navigation
• easy? different ways?
• Reliability
• there when needed? links working?

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Whats in a URL?

• www.pitt.edu/cbw/altm.html

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Whats in a URL?

• nccam.nih.gov/

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Whats in a URL?

• www.io.com/maniac/medical.html

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Summary

• Internet is a vast resource and information can
  come from any source.
• Critically evaluate for content, credibility and
  design.
• You must become a critic when viewing information
  online.

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Acknowledgements

• Special thanks to Kenny McCay
• for her invaluable input!