Website Evaluation

A person conducting research can use all and any information on the internet. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Websites that end with .edu are most often reliable. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Websites that end with .edu are most often reliable. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If a Science Professor publishes an article on the internet about the various plays of Shakespeare, his or her information can be fully trusted or assumed to be reliable. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Another strategy to determine the reliablity of a website is to look for a date of publication or a date when the information was lasted updated. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The url .gov indicates that the site is from the government, and it is reliable information.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

It does not matter if there are typos, spelling errors, or grammar mistakes in a webpage providing information on a topic. 

• True
• False

When determining if a site is reliable, one should look for an author listed

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If you find information on a website that has a URL of .org, you need to determine if the information being provided is biased before incorporating it into your paper. 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

If a website contains an author but does not include the author's credentials one should be careful in determining if that person is qualified to present the information on the topic.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9