Craap Assignment

Resource Quality Evaluation Worksheet

Title of the resource you are evaluating: Native Housing

Directions: Please evaluate your information source according to each of the criteria below by selecting the number that best represents your response.

Currency: The timeliness of the information

Not Current
1
This site was missing information regarding copyright or establishment/update date. This makes this source unreliable because I am unsure of how current the information is and if it has been updated since the day it was developed.

Relevance: The importance of the information for your needs.

Somewhat Relevant
2

This site would only be relevant for surface level research regarding SOME native housing. I might use this site as a resource to support a student’s investigations and to show the many types of housing that have been used.

Authority: The source of the information

Not Authoritative
1

This site lacks any explanation of why Dee Finney is qualified to write about this topic or recommend resources for students to use. Other than URL links there is not a works cited or resource citations within this work. I tried to use some of the links within this site and found that I was sent to search engines or lists of sources much like a search into Google would produce. This does not assure me in any way that the information is accurate.

Accuracy: The reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the informational content.

Not Accurate
1

The information either comes from Dee Finney, unknown qualifications or links that sent me to broad search engines with result such as, Wikipedia. I did not find evidence that shows that the information given is valid or accurate especially for the use of research.

Purpose: The reason the information was published

Somewhat Appropriate Purpose
2

I felt that the purpose of this site was to inform students of the variety of housing that was used within native cultures. This is an appropriate purpose as long as the sources and information is accurate, which is unknown.



Resource Quality Evaluation Worksheet

Title of the resource you are evaluating: Iroquois Indian Tribe History

Currency: The timeliness of the information

Current
3

I found that with comparing this site to the other, this one had much more current information. The site states when the page was first made and when it was last updated, which was within the last year.

Relevance: The importance of the information for your needs.

Somewhat Relevant
2

There is a lot of great information, but the organization is not elementary student “friendly”. This type of organization can be intimidating and it is not easily accessible. I would not choose to use this for any grade at least under 5th. I could use this resource to provide additional information to my students through discussions or taking excerpts from it.

Authority: The source of the information

Authoritative
3


This site is built by a genealogy based company that researches family and cultural histories. The two people that built the site are the same ones that run it today. They compile information from many databases to give researches a lot of information. The research and accuracy they must have to maintain so much family history is amazing.

Accuracy: The reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the informational content.

Somewhat Accurate
2
This site seems like it has such a broad range of useful information to research family history especially certain tribes of Native Americans-Indians. The only wish I had with this site would be a source list. They have many extra resources posted on the site, but I am unsure which, if any, of these were the documents they used to find family history information (the scrolls and records). I wish it was clearer about what combining databases means and who is supplying the information on them.


Purpose: The reason the information was published

Appropriate Purpose
3

The purpose of this site is to be informative. They express the want to be easily accessible to researchers in finding specific information regarding genealogy. Of what I read on the site, I found it to be unbiased and trying to give as much information about a specific tribe as possible. With this said, I do not know anything about this tribe that was not said on this page. I do not know what would be offensive or portrayed as wrong information to others. The site did have a disclaimer just for this reason stating that it “may imply negative stereotypes… and are displayed as historical record”.