Guidelines for Internet Resource Identification and Evaluation Assignment

1 a. Use a search engine (e.g., Google Google Scholar, Ask.com) to identify Internet information on your research topic or another topic of interest to you. For the purpose of this portion of the assignment, identify a site that has specific information about the topic but is not from a journal. Briefly summarize the information you obtained from Internet.

b. Comment on the quality of the information you obtain from the Internet. Does it seem to be credible? accurate? reasonable? supported? how can you tell? Review criteria on the CARS Checklist and include critique of the Internet resource on the form identified in #4 below.

2. a. Go to the “Databases” section of the UMD Library Home page and search Social Work Abstracts to find an article on your research topic or another topic of interest to you.

b. send or submit the complete article reference to Denny (dfalk@d.umn.edu).

3. a. Go to the home page for the research sequence at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~dfalk/research/

b. From the research home page, briefly review the material at the University of Minnesota Institutional Review Board page. Briefly summarize what you reviewed at this site. You could print off a copy of the Behavioral and Social Science application form if you would like.

c. Explore other links from the research home page and briefly summarize what you discovered at one of these links.

4. Use the “Submission Form for Internet Resource Identification and Evaluation Assignment” to submit this assignment.

Contact Denny if you have any questions about this assignment.