Evaluating

Three questions you can ask to determine whether a source is a good fit for your needs.

Students evaluate web sources by answering questions about the author, publisher, and sources used. They then present their responses to the class.

This interactive tutorial will help students learn and apply criteria for evaluating sources so they can select quality sources in the future.

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This interactive tutorial will help students learn about key library resources, develop an understanding of the definition and purpose of peer review, and find and cite peer reviewed articles themselves using the Health and Medicine Resources combined database search (which searches MEDLINE, CINAHL, Health Source, Academic Search Premier, and others) and ProQuest’s Biological Sciences Database.

To get your own copy of the tutorial: Please click on the form link below and fill it out so we will know who is making copies of our tutorials and can send you critical updates in the future. You’ll then be taken automatically to a page where you can make a copy of the tutorial for use in your class. You will be able to modify your copy of the tutorial to tailor it to your course and can see your students’ responses.

Students brainstorm types of sources that they think are “credible” and “not credible” in order to elicit a conversation about a) what a source is and b) what makes it credible or not.