More Than a Score: Evaluating Sources

Using information from Evaluating Websites (or your blue paper handout), decide whether the following pages would be good quality sources to use for a college research paper.

Theme: Success, Opportunity and Advantage

Source Examples:

1. The 5 Common Characteristics Of Highly Successful People
2. American Dream
3. Does Spending More on Education Improve Academic Achievement?
4. Remarks by the President in a National Address to America's School Children
5. 3 Ways White Kids Benefit Most From Racially Diverse Schools
6. No Rich Child Left Behind
7. For Success in Life, Character Matters as Much as Academic Skill, Study Says
8. Learn to view failure as a step to success
9. Parenting and Academic Achievement
10. Race differences in parental influences on child achievement

From Western Libraries, Western Washington University. This tutorial describes how to evaluate sources.