assessments

Teachers' Workplace facilitates immediate assessment of a lesson or concept. Through a series of forms, I easily developed a simple evaluation, to determine which of the sites below presented reliable sites for educational reasearch to my secondary pre-service teachers. All have used the web before and prior to this exercise, we reviewed the Five Criteria for Evaluating WebPages identified at Cornell and generally used as the standard for a website's credibility.

Which of the following websites do you think are reliable sites? What is your evidence?

http://www.theonion.com

http://www.crime-research.org/news/2003/09/Mess0203.html

http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html

http://www.whitehouse.org

http://www.whitehouse.gov

http://www.whitehouse.net

http://www.genochoice.com

http://bonsaikitten.chaos.org

http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

http://www.texasonline.net/langley/columns/drink.htm

Use the form Site reliability to respond to whether you believe these are reliable sites for educational research.

Males deviating from the correct answer are totaled and represented by purple, n=6.Females are blue, n=5. The closer you are to the line, the more correct your group.

Looking at the data I was astonished to learn how many students thought that WhiteHouse.org was a site run by the Whitehouse and that many thought the velcro crop was in danger of dying off and how cats are frightened by men with beard's. This was after the lesson on reviewing site addresses and what to look for to determine credibility. I analyzed the data a bit further just to see if there was a gender trend. Although there is an insignificant amount of data to determine any definite trends, see the results on the left.

I presented this in our next class with a discussion and review of results. There was new realization that although students are using the web a great deal and have some knowlege of search techniques, they tend to believe what they read on the internet. This has important implications in education. Internet "literacy" is a must for all.

Teachers' Workplace facilitates immediate assessment of a lesson or concept. Through a series of forms, I easily developed a simple evaluation, to determine which of the sites below presented reliable sites for educational reasearch to my secondary pre-service teachers. All have used the web before and prior to this exercise, we reviewed the Five Criteria for Evaluating WebPages identified at Cornell and generally used as the standard for a website's credibility.
Which of the following websites do you think are reliable sites? What is your evidence? http://www.theonion.com http://www.crime-research.org/news/2003/09/Mess0203.html http://www.umbachconsulting.com/miscellany/velcro.html http://www.whitehouse.org http://www.whitehouse.gov http://www.whitehouse.net http://www.genochoice.com http://bonsaikitten.chaos.org http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html http://www.texasonline.net/langley/columns/drink.htm Use the form Site reliability to respond to whether you believe these are reliable sites for educational research.

Males deviating from the correct answer are totaled and represented by purple, n=6.Females are blue, n=5. The closer you are to the line, the more correct your group.	Looking at the data I was astonished to learn how many students thought that WhiteHouse.org was a site run by the Whitehouse and that many thought the velcro crop was in danger of dying off and how cats are frightened by men with beard's. This was after the lesson on reviewing site addresses and what to look for to determine credibility. I analyzed the data a bit further just to see if there was a gender trend. Although there is an insignificant amount of data to determine any definite trends, see the results on the left. I presented this in our next class with a discussion and review of results. There was new realization that although students are using the web a great deal and have some knowlege of search techniques, they tend to believe what they read on the internet. This has important implications in education. Internet "literacy" is a must for all.