LibGuides: Evaluating Sources: General Evaluation Information

How Well Do You Evaluate Online Information?

Civic Online Reasoning
From Stanford's History Education Group.
Includes assessments of civic online reasoning—the ability to judge the credibility of the information that floods people’s smartphones, tablets, and computer screens.
Factitious: A Game that Tests Your News Sense
Take this quiz to practice your evaluation skills.
PEW Research Report Questions: Fact vs Opinion
Take this quiz to find out how well you can differentiate fact from opinion.

Spot the Troll
The quiz where YOU examine images of real social media content and decide whether it's from a legitimate account or an internet troll.

Trust It or Trash It
Review this site before beginning online research. Be sure to click on each step to expand the description.

https://mediamanipulation.org/
The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.

How to Teach Information Literacy in an Era of Lies
Good article on why higher education instructors should be incorporating information literacy.

The Debunking Handbook
Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there's no summary of the literature that offers practical guidelines on the most effective ways of reducing the influence of myths. The Debunking Handbook boils the research down into a short, simple summary, intended as a guide for communicators in all areas (not just climate) who encounter misinformation.