You will reference this rubric to evaluate online sources as you do online research.

	Credible	Somewhat credible	Not very credible	Not at all credible
Accuracy	Information is reliable and can be verified by other reliable sources. There are no errors.	Information can be verified by most other reliable sources. There are few to no errors.	Information con-tains errors and is difficult to confirm.	Information is not accurate and conflicts with reliable sources.
Authors	Authors are listed and are reputable in the field. Contact information is available.	Authors are not listed but sponsors or the site of origin are easy to de-termine.	Author is not reputable in the field.	Author or sponsor information is not available.
Bias	The site is free of bias and alternate viewpoints are presented.	It’s difficult to determine if the material is fact or opinion.	There are evi-dences of bias in the content.	The site is clearly biased, twisting words to fit an agenda.
Content	The content of the site is reliable, comes from primary sources, is consistent with what is already known, and is well-documented and supported with data.	Content is mostly supported by data and mostly consistent with what is already known. May or may not use primary sour-ces.	Content is in-complete and in-consistent with what is already known and other reliable sources.	Content is in-accurate or sus-pect. Neither data nor sources are given.
Resources	A complete list of sources is given and the author clearly explains where they got their information.	Sources are referenced but there is not a complete list.	Sources are not referenced, but an incomplete list exists on the site.	The author doesn’t mention anywhere what sources were used.
Timeliness	Links are current, content is updated, revision dates are displayed.	The content is mostly current for the topic.	Revision dates are old. There are broken or dead links.	No revision dates are given and links are expired.

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