Evaluation Exercises

Go to Tools For Teaching: The World Wide Web and a Web Browser.

Answer the following questions:

1. Who is the author or institution?

2. How current is the information?

3. Who is the audience?

4. Is the content accurate and objective?

5. What is the purpose of the information.

Here is a list of Web documents dealing with the issue of affirmative action. Using the guidelines discussed in this lesson, determine whether any of these sites provide reliable and objective information about the issue:

Turn in your answers in writing or by email.

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