Website Evaluation

You are researching for your school project online. What should be your first step in evaluating the credibility of the website you are using as a source?

• Verify the publication date of the information on the website.

• Look for grammatical errors in the content of the website.

• Check the design of the website.

• Check the author or organization that published the information on the website.

Which of the following is an example of bias in a restaurant's website content?

• Only including positive customer reviews and excluding any negative ones.

• Describing the restaurant's dishes in a one-sided manner or favoring a particular cuisine without providing a balanced perspective.

What should you consider when looking at a website's design and usability?

• Think about how easy it is to use, how it looks, and if it works well on phones.

• Check if it has a lot of ads and if it connects to social media.

• Look at the colors and fonts used on the website.

• See if the website has a blog and where the ads are placed.

You are researching for a school project on climate change. How can you assess the accuracy of the information on a website you found?

• Check for credible sources and references

• Look for spelling and grammatical errors

• Verify the information with multiple sources

What does it mean to check a website's authority and expertise?

• Seeing how many people visit the website.

• Looking at how nice the website looks.

• Checking if the website is trustworthy and knows a lot about a topic.

• Finding out how the website appears in search results.

Which of the following is NOT a reliable indicator of a website's authority?

• The number of followers the website's social media accounts have

• The age of the website's domain

You are researching for a school project and you stumble upon a website that states that the earth is flat. What should you do?

• Trust the information without verifying it.

• Share the inaccurate information with your classmates.

• Verify the information from other reliable sources.

• Ignore the information and move on.

Why is it important to check if a website is trustworthy when doing research?

• To make sure the information is correct and reliable.

• To make the information harder to find.

• To spread wrong information.

• To waste time and effort.

Why might a news website show biased information about a political event?

• To ensure objectivity and unbiased information about the event.

• To promote a specific political agenda related to the event.

Which of the following is NOT important when checking if a website is easy to use?

• The font style used on the website.

• The placement of navigation menus.

• The loading speed of the website.

• The color scheme of the website