Research Guides: How to Write a College Paper: Evaluation Exercises

Compare Depression Websites

Lessons for Evaluating i

Checkology Virtual Classroom
E.S.C.A.P.E. Junk News Lesson Plans and Posters on teaching evaluation of junk news.
Fake News and What we can do about it - from ADL
Make sure your Websites Go with the Flow Step by step process to evaluate your website with an exercise from Kirkwood Community College
SKYCTC Library - Website Evaluation Tutorial Tutorial on Website Evaluation from South Central Kentucky College.

Selective Attention

"Focus on interpreting information — on the varying ways we make sense of the information we encounter. She recommends teaching students about confirmation bias, selective attention, and other ways in which our sense of what is true may say more about us than about the information itself."

From: How to teach Information Literacy in an era of Lies. https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Teach-Information/243973

Web Evaluation Worksheet

Gold Standard
Use a bad site to create criteria or gold standard for a good web site.
Evaluate using Hoax websites
List of several hoax websites.
R.A.T.E. and Evaluate Websites
R.A.T.E. criteria for evaluating web sites.

For Faculty: Evaluation Exercises Power Point

Tackling the Complexities of Source Evaluation: Active Learning Exercises That Foster Students’ Critical Thinking