Website Mastery

This article from Inside Higher Ed provides a quick summary to a study which looked at how undergraduates, historians, and fact checkers approach evaluating a website. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/30/study-historians-easily-fooled-unreliable-content

Evaluating your sources is the most important thing you can do.

The criteria to evaluate sources include:

• Accuracy
• Authority
• Objectivity
• Currency
• Coverage

These criteria are considered more in-depth in the file below.