Evaluating Resources

 

 

When evaluation resources for my classroom, whether text or web, I would use the same checklist.

 

1. Scope: Is this text what you need? Does it focus on my expectations?
2. Audience: Who was this written for? Will it be appropriate for this grade level?
3. Timeliness: How current is this information? When was it published and how often is it updated?
4. Authority: Who wrote this? Do they have the education/credentials to be publishing this information? Have they written other materials on the same topic?
5. Documentation: Is there a bibliography or footnotes?
6. Objectivity: Is the information presented one person’s point of view? Is there evidence of bias?

 

 

 

Critical Evaluation of Resources

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/evaluation.html

 

Evaluating Web Pages:  Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

http://www.lib.berkely.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.htm

 

Queen’s University’s Guide: Evaluating Web Information. 

http://library.queensu.ca/inforef/tutorials/qcat/evalint.htm

 

Spiegel, Dixie Lee October 1990.  Materials for integrating science and social studies with the language arts.  The Reading Teacher  Vol.4 No. 2.

 

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