Website Evaluation Resources

Brandman University Ed 451/551 Fall - 2011

 

Information found on the web should be evaluated using the same criteria used to evaluate traditional information resources:

The difference between traditional resources and the web is that you need to do all of the evaluating. Unlike traditional publishers, there are no peer reviewers, editors, or fact-checkers for most websites. You must evaluate each web resource individually.

 

Kathy Schrock's Site (for Website evaluation forms: use the form most appropriate to your planned level of teaching).

 

Evaluating Websites Information

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops

 

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools - Cornell University

 

Evaluating Websites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators - Excellent for Teachers

 

Lesley University

 

 

Websites for Evaluation
Most of the sites below contain multiple resources for education.  Limit your evaluation to one portion of these type of a website. These are suggestions only; you may use others.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators  (now owned by Discovery School) One of the best and most well-known

 

Ed Helper

 

Score Math (Kings County Office of Education)

 

California County Offices of Education Websites