Evaluating Websites

The Good? The Bad? or The Ugly? You Decide!

Criteria (A): Authority/Source

1. Girls Playing with the Boys and Boys Playing the Girls http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/sports02/papers/zmeyer.html
   
   
2. Congress Weighing Internet Filtering for Schools
   http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/15/internetfiltering.ap/index.html
   
   
3. Dress Code Enforcement Goes too Far
   http://www.libertarianrock.com/topics/school/dresscode_essay.html
   

Criteria (B): Objectivity And Timeliness

1. Women's Sports Foundation – Know your rights
   http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/issues/rights/article.html?record=569
   

2. Effects of student uniforms on attendance, behavior problems, substance abuse, and academic achievement
   http://www.geocities.com/school_uniforms/abstract98.html
   
   
3. Rift over recruiting at public high schools
   http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0518/p02s01-ussc.html
   

Criteria (C): Readability and Coverage

1. Dissection
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissection
   
   
2. Besafeonline.com
   http://www.bsafehome.com/?230360&gclid=CLWsiLSI344CFSc8gQody11OKA
   
   
3. Boys try to join girls' teams following human-rights ruling
   http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2006/09/26/pasternak-boys.html

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This page last updated September 27, 2007
Prepared by Ms. Wingert for Freshmen Seminar Classes

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