Home

 

Website Evaluation Tool

 

 

As we have talked about in class, there are many websites on the internet that are skewed or provide fallacious information.  Here provided for you is a Website Evaluation Tool that is required for the use of any website used for class on any assignment.

 

 

Note:  You can also download this like by click on this link

Microsoft Word Version

 

Name:_________________________________   Date:___________________   Time:________

Web Address:  http://____________________________________________________________

 

Instruction:  Please complete all of the following as it will help to evaluate the reliability, validity, and quality of the website that you have selected for your assignment. Please provide detailed information to all questions where required.  After completion please refer to the rubric on www.historyatglance.com/webeval.html or the bottom of this page.

 

  1. How did you come to this particular website? (i.e. search engine such as Google, Yahoo, etc. or through a link posted somewhere, etc.) 

 

 

Website Appearance:

Question

Response

1.  Does the website use all web browsers?

           YES               or                  NO

2.  The website does not contain any broken links.

           YES               or                  NO

3.  Is there any multimedia (podcast, videos, audio files, etc.) on this website?

           YES               or                  NO

4.  How do you feel about the navigation of the website? (i.e. speed, choice of graphics, format, easy to navigate, etc.)

Content:

Question

Response

1.  Did you find the information on this website useful?

         YES               or                 NO

2.  What type of information is displayed on the website?

3.  Do you believe the information of the website is accurate and correct?

          YES               or                NO

4.  Did you find any information that was incorrect or inaccurate of the website?

          YES               or                NO

5.  Are there other sources that back the information up found on the website?

          YES               or                NO

6.  What was the date of the last revision to the website ____/_____/_____

     When was the website created?____/_____/_____

7.  Does the website have a sponsor? (Could be listed, displayed, advertised, etc.) If so, please list any.

          YES               or                NO

8.  Does the website contain any citations?

          YES               or                NO

9.  If so, are they links or can you at least go look them up?

          YES               or                NO

10.  Does the site provide any useful links?

          YES               or                NO

11.  Does the content follow basic rules of grammar, spelling and literary composition?

          YES               or                NO

Authority

Questions

Response

1.  Does the website have an author(s)?

If so, are they credibly?

          YES               or               NO

          YES              or               NO

2.  What was the purpose of this website?  Do you sense any type of bias?

 

 

3.  Do you think this website has an intended audience? 

          YES               or               NO

4.  If so, who do you think it is?

 

 

 

5.  Does the website contain a biography of the author(s) or group producing it?

          YES               or               NO

6.  Is there a contact email, mailing address, or phone number posted on the website?

          YES               or               NO

Rubric:

Upon completion of your website evaluation this should help to grade the reliability, validity, and quality of the particular website under evaluation.