Evaluate and Analyze Sources
Accuracy: copyright date, last update, sources verified, quality of source material, range of dates for source material, links work
Bias: both sides equally presented, no facts omitted, not a parody
Credentials: authors' credentials, contact information, sponsor or publisher of website
Primary Source: created during the time period you are researching (for example, a diary, a letter, a speech from that period, etc.)
Secondary Source: is a source that was created to analyze or report on the event or time period.
Answers essential questions?
CARE Web Evaluation
Here at JSRHS, we use the CARE Evaluation criteria to evaluate sources.
The CARE Web Evaluation Worksheet and criteria was used with permission from Donna Zecha, Hopkinton Middle/High School
The rise and rise of fake news (BBC)
Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds (NPR)
How to Spot Fake News (Factcheck.org)
Identifying Fake News: An Infographic and Educator Resources (EasyBib)
Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information (Edutopia)
Just because it is on the internet doesn't make it true!
Unless you are collecting information from the Library Research Databases or an evaluated website, you need to test your source using the CARE Web Evaluation test and conduct a website evaluation tool search.
Save yourself some time, use Library Research Databases!
Test your Evaluation skills with this game (NPR)
Lots more resources on our Destiny Collection
Lots more resources on our News and Media Literacy LibGuide
Evaluating the Website Authority (video)
Evaluating the Website Purpose (video)
Evaluating the Website Accuracy (video)
Evaluating the Website Relevance (video)
Identifying Fake News: An Infographic and Educator Resources (EasyBib)
Top 10 sites to help students check their facts (ISTE)
