Evaluating Sites
Use the sites below to learn how to evaluate web sites and find only the best quality information.
- Evaluating Web Sites TutorialWalks you through testing web sites for how well it meets certain criteria.
- Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria for the ClassroomLists criteria, what questions to ask to evaluate each criterion, and example web pages to illustrate good or bad pages.
- Evaluating Web Sites: HarvardUses ABCD Criteria: Authority, Bias, Currency, and Documentation and Delivery.
- Five Criteria for Evaluating Web PagesExplains how to evaluate web sites for accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage, then how to put those together to decide which sites to use.
- Teaching Civil War History 2.0New York Times article on the difficulty of evaluating web sites in the teaching of history.
Introduction
Welcome to the Research Guide for Public Policy class 2012, Foundations of Public Policy. Using this research guide will help you find high-quality resources for your term paper. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Axford.
Hint on getting started: use the CQ Researcher database to find background information on your topic.
Hint on finding statistics: Use the Proquest Statistical Insight database. To get to Statistical Datasets, go into Statistical Insight, and click at the top on "Related LexisNexis Subscriptions" then choose Statistical Datasets.
Find Articles on General Public Policy Topics
Find articles on general public policy topics in the databases listed by using the search box below. Click the "i" button by a database name to see a description. For a Google-like interface to many scholarly and other resources, try QuickSearch Beta
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