This document provides guidance on evaluating websites using set criteria and analyzing information effectively. It discusses considering a website's purpose such as to inform, sell, persuade or entertain, which can affect the information's potential for bias, misinformation or unreliability. Users are directed to complete an online tutorial on website evaluation, design an evaluation grid for criteria like those in the tutorial, and then critically analyze several example websites using the created criteria grid.
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2. evaluating websites
1. EVALUATING WEBSITES
? Critically evaluate websites using set criteria
? Think creatively about information found
online
? Analyse and evaluate information
effectively
2. WHY?
? What is the purpose of a website?
?
?
?
?
inform
sell
persuade
entertain
? How might this affect the information on the
website?
? bias
? misinformation
? unreliability
4. NOW HAVE A LOOK AT THESE¡
Critically evaluate these websites using the criteria you
have designed
? http://fdxnewsonline.com/health/index11724.php
? http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/violence-againstwomen-girls/teenage-relationship-abuse/
? www.rythospital.com
? www.geoffbarton.co.uk