Topic: Evaluation of websites for its authenticity

Author: Gujarathi Namita

Year: 2004 - 2005

Abstract:
With the internet, anything can be published on the web at a low cost and can be distributed virtually worldwide. The information which is put on the web sometimes has no editor, reviewer or any other kind of review mechanism to determine the credibility, accuracy or timelines of the material. To create the awareness and check the authenticity of the web source need to develop evaluation tool was created.

Objectives of the research were:

• To create awareness about authenticity of website
  
• To recognize why the evaluation of website is essential or important
  
• To develop a tool to evaluate the online material for its authenticity.

The study was based on the evaluation research and the samples were four educational websites and the evaluation tool developed was checklist to evaluate the websites for the authenticity. Also the validation tool was prepared to test the appropriateness and the validity of the tool which was evaluated by the experts. It was found that two of the four sites does not show any points which could be marked as the strength of the site. Two sites got full marks on the authority, currency and reputation of the sites.