Traditional information literacy instruction asks students to answer these questions of a random website:
Who does the site belong to?
Are they considered to be experts on the subject?
Is their argument or points made biased?
These can be intimidating questions to answer! To help you, educators have come up with two acronyms to help guide the process. While these are not enough, they can help you begin to form a valid assessment of an item.
From RADCAB.com
From UC, San Diego, the CRAAP test:
Try checking out the link below to the book Web Literacy for Student Fact-checkers by Mike Caulfield. "This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly."
