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Evaluation Criteria for Students

Evaluation Criteria for Students. presented by Budgie Latshaw and Eric Englert Professional Development Center. Why Evaluate Web Pages?. Web is vast easy access good, bad and mediocre An open forum for publication no filtering process of editors

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Evaluation Criteria for Students

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  1. Evaluation Criteria for Students presented by Budgie Latshaw and Eric Englert Professional Development Center

  2. 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 someone’s head to the Web • Know what to look for • Put on your skeptic’s glasses http://www.lme.mnsu.edu/mankato/mankato.html

  3. Evaluation Categories • Content • quantity and quality • Credibility • expertise and objectivity • Design • aesthetic and technical

  4. 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? Content

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

  6. 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? Design

  7. What’s in a URL? www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html

  8. What’s in a URL? nccam.nih.gov/

  9. What’s in a URL? www.io.com/~maniac/medical.html

  10. 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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