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Academic Skills: Research Guide: Evaluating Sources

Resources to help with academic research, including databases, Google Scholar, how-to guides and discipline-specific resources.

How to Evaluate Your Sources

How can you tell if the information you find is good information?  Use the CRAAP test. It's a list of questions to help you evaluate the information you find.  Different criteria will be more or less important depending on your situation or need.

What is the CRAAP test?

By scoring each category on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 = worst, 10=best possible) you can give each site a grade on a 50 point scale for how high-quality it is.

45 - 50 Excellent | 40 - 44 Good | 35 - 39 Average | 30 - 34 Borderline Acceptable | Below 30 - Unacceptable

CRAAP Test in Action

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