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Research Information and Resources
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Evaluating Information Sources
Evaluation of Web Sites
Selection Criteria for General Sources
References from
Information Quality WWW Virtual Library, created and maintained by Alastair Smith
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Evaluating Web Resources: A Bibliography.
LIAB Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Evaluate Web Pages. Jan Alexander & Marsha Tate. Widener University.
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Lake Forest College Library: Evaluating Web Sites.
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Evaluating Web sites. Lesley University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Evaluating Information on the Internet. Brandt, D. Scott. Purdue University.
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Critical Evaluation Surveys. Kathleen Schrock. Criteria for elementary, middle, and secondary school levels.
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An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation. Toni Greer, et al. Website for a course in Internet resource evaluation. Considers the following factors: 1. Reasons to evaluate; 2. Methods of evaluation; and 3. Teaching Web evaluation.
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Evaluating Credibility of Information on the Internet. Ronald B. Standler. Essay on adaption of traditional scientific criteria (peer review, credentials, and writing style) to the Internet.
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Evaluating Internet Research Sources. Robert Harris, Southern California College. Provides a set of evaluative tests and advice to readers on how to evaluate web information.
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Evaluating Internet Resources: An Annotated Guide to Selected Resources. Library of Congress list of links to "a number of such guides representing a variety of approaches, which together provide an overview of major issues to be considered when evaluating Internet resources."
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Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask. Joe Barker, UC Berkeley Library. What can the URL tell you?/ Scan the perimeter of the page, looking for answers to these questions/ Look for indicators of quality information/ What do others say?/ Does it all add up?
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Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools. Part of a Cornell University site on carrying out research. Looks at context, evaluation criteria, web reviews, and rankings and includes a Webliography.
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Web Credibility Project. Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University. "Our goal is to understand what leads people to believe what they find on the Web. We hope this knowledge will enhance Web site design and promote future research on Web credibility."
Selection Criteria for Specific Sources
Some of these are less useful than others, but included to show the range of criteria that are used for evaluation.
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ESL Resources
For Students
Reference Works
English Grammar
Vocabulary and Idioms
Reading
Listening
Writing
Fun Sites and Chat Boards
- Activities for EFL/ESL Students.
Quizzes, exercises, and puzzles to help you learn English.
- Dave's ESL Café
- English as a 2nd Language
- ESL Town. Learn English online: games, pen pals, chats, quizzes, and grammar.
- ESL KidStuff.
Flashcards, worksheets, and games for children.
- Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students
- Linguistic Funland TESL Page
- Rong-Chang Li-ESL.
The site contains access to ESL curriculum materials that cover listening, reading, and writing activities that include games, quizzes, and magazines.
- TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/ESOL links for students
For Faculty
ESL Resources for Teachers
- 4Teachers: Professional Development.
"From equity and bilingual education to grants and educational journals, these multifaceted pages will guide you to all the top professional development resources you'll need."
- http://iteslj.org. Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links.
This is a monthly web journal, so make a bookmark.
- CAL-Center for Applied Linguistics
- Center for Language Minority Education and Research. A California State-Long Beach university-wide appointed entity, affiliated with the College of Education.
- Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research
- Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) on the Web
- Education Resources for TEFL
- EFLWEB Home Page.
A place for new and prospective EFL/ESL teachers
- The Internet TESL Journal for Teachers of English as a Second Language
- Language Learning & Technology
- NABE.
The National Association for Bilingual Education is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting educational excellence and equity for English language learners and to representing the professional educators who serve them.
- National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE)
- Teacher Resources(Ohio ESL)
- TESL-EJ.
An online, freely-distributed academic journal that is fully refereed. Each article undergoes a review by at least two knowledgeable scholars.
- TESOL Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Professional Teacher's Organization.
- TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/ESOL links.
- TESL/TESL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links.
This site is maintained by the Internet TESL Journal and is of interest to both students and teachers.
English Language Learning
Bilingual Education
Literary Resources
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- General Database (accessible only on campus)
Chronological List of Literary Periods
- Medieval and Classical Literature
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- Eighteenth Century
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- Contemporary Literature: 1945 to present
LitLinks
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