Explain Some Ways to Evaluate and Source Information Found on the Web

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Essay

Explain some ways to evaluate and source information found on the web.

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Definitions:

Open-ended Questions

Questions that cannot be answered with a simple "yes" or "no," encouraging a detailed or descriptive response.

Internet-based Surveys

Surveys that are distributed and completed online, utilizing the internet to collect responses from a wide audience quickly.

Survey

A research method in which predetermined, formatted questions are distributed to relatively large numbers of people. Typically, respondents respond by phone, mail, e-mail, or website.

Cross-sectional Surveys

Studies that collect data from a specific population or a representative subset at one specific point in time.