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Evaluating the Quality of Internet Information
This section of the tutorial is about the critical thinking and evaluative skills you need when using the Internet.
Learning Objectives
- Raise awareness of the issue of information quality on the Internet
- Highlight quality issues that are especially relevant to medical students
- Offer tips and hints on how to use critical thinking to improve the value you get from the Internet
- Point out some common pitfalls of Internet use
Information Quality
Unlike most other information sources that you will come across, the Internet is not quality controlled. Anybody can put anything on the Internet and nobody has to prove to anybody that what he or she is saying is correct.
It is up to you to decide if what you find is reputable or not. A well laid out Web site, fancy graphics and extensive amounts of data are no guarantee of quality.
So, how can you tell what to trust and what not to trust? Where do you begin to evaluate the information you find and if the authors are reliable or not? Web site evaluation involves asking key questions, such as:
- Who has provided the information?
- Why was the information provided?
- When was it provided?
- Where is it provided from?
- Can some tips help?
Select from the list above to jump to one of the items or use the "next" button
to begin working through them all.
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