WEBSITE
EVALUATION
FORM
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ALL FORMS MUST BE HANDED IN AS PART OF YOUR GRADE.
There
are three
essential criteria that you should use to determine the quality of any
website.
They are Authority, Content, and Design.
Below you will find a series of questions and suggestions to
help you
evaluate the Authority of a website.
How do
you know that the person or group who created this website is an
authority on
the topic? Do they have expertise in the
field? Should you assume that they know more than you do about the
subject?
Answer the following questions as
throroughly as possible.
Title of
Web Page _______________________________________________________
Website Address_________________________________________________________
2. What
is the sponsoring organization or
institution? Is it a business, an
educational institution, a government agency, an individual person, a
non-profit institution? Find as much
background information as you can.
If you cannot easily tell
from the website name who the sponsoring
institution or person is try the following:
Click on the Home page to
see if there is identifying information in
the heading
Click on the About link.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Based on the background information you found, what makes this person or institution a reliable source of information on the topic?
Examples:
The
Franklin Institute
specializes in science information.
The
A German professor at