Evaluate your sources
As you do your research, it may be difficult to find the sources that best fit, so it is important to evaluate your sources based on your information needs. Sometimes you will need a source with the most current up-to-date information available, and other times you will not. Or you may need to evaluate your need for an objective versus bias perspective.
Ask yourself these 4 questions:
This interactive quiz will help you evaluate any source, but is best suited for website evaluations.
For a more complete evaluation tool, visit the CRAAP Test, to consider Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose.
Ask yourself these 4 questions:
- What are you looking for?
- Is this information up-to-date?
- Who is providing this information?
- What is the purpose?
This interactive quiz will help you evaluate any source, but is best suited for website evaluations.
For a more complete evaluation tool, visit the CRAAP Test, to consider Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose.