Rohrbach Library Home: A Research Guide: Evaluating the Web Part 2

Test your ability to judge online resources

See how you do at determining whether information is true or false. Are you as good as you think?

(Note: The canonical version of the Check Please Starter Course exists here, which is the version written by Mike Caulfield.)

NYTimes Quiz

Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post?

To learn more about Fake News, see the libguide on that topic.

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Evaluating Resources (UC Berkeley)
A guide with techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages and train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.
Evaluating Information Sources: A Tutorial (Purdue)
This brief tutorial highlights criteria for evaluating sources and sites on the Internet and Web, and provides example sites for you to apply what you have learned. (Takes about 20 minutes to complete.)

News Quality Infographics

The most helpful aspect of the following chart is the indication of reliability and bias in news outlets. However, everything that is written has a bias or perspective, including outlets that are pictured in the middle. Always remember that a center perspective still has a bias and that there is no such thing as a purely neutral perspective.