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WebPage Evaluation Checklist - Berkeley PDF

This document provides a checklist for evaluating web pages. It lists questions in four categories: examining the URL, scanning the perimeter of the page, looking for indicators of quality, and considering what others say about the page. The goal is to thoughtfully investigate pages by being suspicious and thinking critically about the title, author, date, sources, and purpose of the page.

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WebPage Evaluation Checklist - Berkeley PDF

This document provides a checklist for evaluating web pages. It lists questions in four categories: examining the URL, scanning the perimeter of the page, looking for indicators of quality, and considering what others say about the page. The goal is to thoughtfully investigate pages by being suspicious and thinking critically about the title, author, date, sources, and purpose of the page.

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Web Page Evaluation Checklist

The column on the left lists questions to ask to investigate web pages.
Evaluating Web pages requires two actions:
be suspicious
think critically about every page you find

Title of page you are evaluating: Title of page you are evaluating:

1. Look at the URL:


Personal page or site? ~ or %, or users, members, or people ~ or %, or users, members, or people
com org/net edu gov/mil/us com org/net edu gov/mil/us
What type of domain is it?
non-US________ non-US________
Appropriate for the content? other: other:
Published by entity that makes sense? Publisher or Domain Name entity: Publisher or Domain Name entity:
Does it correspond to the name of the site?
2. Scan the perimeter of page, looking for answers to these questions:
E-mail Name: E-mail Name:
Who wrote the page?

Dated? Date ________ Current enough? Date ________ Current enough?


Credentials on this subject? Evidence? Evidence?
(Truncate back the URL if no useful links.)

3. Look for these indicators of quality

Sources well documented?


Complete? If 2nd-hand information, is it not
altered or forged?
Links to more resources? Do they work?

Other viewpoints? Bias?

4. What do others say?


Many or few? Many or few?
Who links to it? Opinions of it? Opinions of it?
Hint: In Google search: link:all.or.part.of.url

Is the page rated well in a directory?


http://lii.org or http://infomine.ucr.edu or http://about.com

Look up the author in Google

Does it all add up?


Why was the page put on the Web? Inform, facts, data Explain Inform, facts, data Explain
Persuade Sell Entice Persuade Sell/entice
Share/disclose Share/disclose
Other: Other:
Possibly ironic? Satire or parody?

BOTTOM LINE: Is the web page as good as (or better than) what you could find in journal articles or
other published literature that is not on the free, general web?
2004 Joe Barker, The Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley
The Best Stuff On The Web

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