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Kiili, Carita; Laurinen, Leena; Marttunen, Miika – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2008
The Internet is a significant information resource for students due to the ease of access it allows to a vast amount of information. As the quality of the information on the Internet varies, it is important that students are able to evaluate such information critically. The aim of the study was to investigate how students evaluate Internet sources…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Secondary School Students, Essays, Writing Assignments
Rieh, Soo Young; Belkin, Nicholas J. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1998
Reports on a study of people's decision making with respect to quality and authority on the World Wide Web. Seven facets of judgment of information quality were identified: source, content, format, presentation, currency, accuracy, and speed of loading. Institutional and individual authority was identified as an underlying theme in source…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources