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PSY 322-0002 Physiological Psychology - UMM Web/Online: Evaluating Information

This guide will assist students in the research for the completion of the Web/Online section of PSY 322 course assignment - a research paper. The video tutorials on the Find Articles page were created by Shiva Darbandi of UMS Off Campus Library Services.

INTRODUCTION

The Internet offers information and data from all over the world. Because so much information is available, and because that information can appear to be fairly “anonymous”, it is necessary to develop skills to evaluate what you find. When you use a research or academic library, the books, journals and other resources have already been evaluated by scholars, publishers and librarians. Every resource you find has been evaluated in one way or another before you ever see it. When you are using the Internet, none of this applies. All information, whether in print or by byte, needs to be evaluated by readers for value. If you find information that is "too good to be true", it probably is. Never use information that you cannot verify. - ©Elizabeth Kirk, The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins Universityhttp://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

EVALUATING INFORMATION ON THE WEB

This tutorial provides criteria to evaluate web pages.  Two websites www.martinlutherking.org and  www.thekingcenter.org are used as examples in the evaluation process. 

Use the link below to view the tutorial.

EVALUATION CRITERIA CHECKLIST

Use Merrill Library's Evaluating Internet Sites checklist to help you evaluate the quallity and reliability of Internet sites.

FLYING PENQUINS

By Neil Midgley, TV & Radio Editor 1:10PM BST 01 Apr 2008

The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.

Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.

The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: "We'd been watching the penguins and filming them for days, without a hint of what was to come.

"But then the weather took a turn for the worse. It was quite amazing. Rather than getting together in a huddle to protect themselves from the cold, they did something quite unexpected, that no other penguins can do."

MAKING OF "FLYING PENQUINS"

Here’s a behind the scenes look for the Flying Penguins Documentary prank.

CRITERIA TO EVALUATE INFORMATION

When you search for information, you're going to find lots of it . . . but is it good information? You will have
to determine that for yourself, and the CRAAP Test can help. The CRAAP Test is a list of questions to help
you evaluate the information you find. Different criteria will be more or less important depending on your
situation or need.

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