Assessment of Information Resources
This listed links includes articles, organizations, hoaxes and rumors sites and other materials that are concerned with the assessment of information resources and web resources.
Assessment Resources
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Consumer Reports Web Watch: The leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online
Consumer Reports Web Watch is a grant-funded project of Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and consumerreports.org. Through research, the promotion of guidelines for best practices and other means, they seek to improve the credibility of content on the World Wide Web. -
Evaluating Web-Based Instruction Design
The purpose of this proposed research project is to explore design issues associated with the development of Web-Based Instruction (WBI). -
November Learning – Information Literacy
A guide that provides resources and lesson ideas to help instructors teach students how to validate Web site information
Hoaxes and Rumors -
Bogus and Questionable Web Sites
These are examples, some quite good, of web sites that are bogus: they offer services and products that don't exist, report research that is false and never happened, and so on. Many are excellent examples to use in instructing Internet evaluation. -
Dream Technologies International
A parody website that claims to be the first and largest reproductive cloning provider: it can be used as an example for Web information evaluation. -
Open Directory – Instructional Technology: Web Site Evaluation – Hoax Sites
Contains imaginative and spoof sites useful for promoting critical thinking about the truthfulness of information found on the Internet