HOW DOES THIS SITE RATE?

The reviews are based on 5 criterion as follows:

AUTHORITY
                          Is it clear who is responsible for the contents of the page?
                          Are the qualifications or credentials given?
                          Is there a way of verifying the legitimacy of this individual?

 ACCURACY
                          Are the sources for any factual information clearly listed so they can be verified in another source?
                          Are there any grammatical, spelling, and typographical errors? 

OBJECTIVITY
                          Are the person's biases clearly stated?
                          If there is advertisements with in the site, are they separate from the informational content?

CURRENCY
                          Are there dates on the page (When the page was written, copyrighted, first published, or last revised)?
                          Has the information been revised?

COVERAGE
                          Is there an indication that the page has been completed, and is not still under construction?

MY REVIEW
1. AUTHORITY:    Shari Galgan has provided a link to her afliated school district. However, she has not provided any information
                               conserning her credentials and qualifications. The link provided does give a verifiable address and telephone number.

2. ACCURACY:    Each piece of information is given as a link to another webpage.  This is verifiable depending on the given website.

3. OBJECTIVITY: This site has specific objective for a lesson plan and has provided clear information is objective depending on the given site.

4. CURRENCY:    This site is not copyrighted. It has been updated as of Nov. 14, 1998.

5. COVERAGE:     This site appears to be complete and provides detailed explanation of the topics at hand.

This evaluation technique used is found at Evaluation Web Resources, Evaluating Internet Resources, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources.

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