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CARS. Checklist for evaluating websites: Look for the best evidence of Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, and Support.

CARS. Checklist for evaluating websites: Look for the best evidence of Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, and Support.

This page gives good advice and brings up some important thoughts for evaluating the accuracy and dependability of web searches.

I believe this resource is good, as it provides great tips for evaluating web sources!

Questions to ask when evaluating web documents. This helps evaluate the accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage of the information.

This article gives some really good - and simple - advice on how to more efficiently search for information, using search engines such as Google.

In this website related to evaluating resources, teachers can find tips/ideas on how to teach students to validate information and sources. Educators can offer this URL to students, and the learners can analyze what is required in authenticating information they find. For instance, the dimensions of critical analysis (relevance, accuracy, bias/perspective, and reliability) are clearly defined and explained. The teacher can then model examples of each dimension for children. Along with this and much more, questions to consider before using a source in your papers, etc. are identified.