Webpage Evaluation

In our lesson on website evaluation, we had to look up sites by various universities about how we should check the validity of each website. For an example, our group had to look up John Hopkin's site about webpage evaluation. When the entire class collaborated on what we had learned, there were a number of similar ideas present. These included:

• Checking the author's credentials in order to see if the writing was believable. This was done by checking if the author was affiliated with an established university or seeing if the author had a university degree.
• Checking to see if the website had any biases, and to see if the writing was objective overall. If there was any kind of indication that the website was not objective or was biased towards one side, then it must be taken into consideration.
• Checking the site design. Make sure that the website was designed well, if the information included some kind of source page, and if there was recently edited. Another thing to check was if layout of the website, such as if the majority of the page was with text etc.