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Establishing criteria for evaluating health-related World Wide Web sites

The problem of the study was to establish valid criteria for evaluating health-related World Wide Web [WWW] sites. From a table of specifications, a pool of 39 items was developed into a Criteria List. A nine member jury of experts composed of professionals from the discipline of Library and Information Science was used to determine content validity of the items. The items on the Criteria List were sent to the expert panel of jurors for the first review. To determine which items would be retained, revised or eliminated, the items were subjected to both a quantitative and qualitative review. The revised Criteria List was then sent to the expert panel of jurors for the second review. Responses from the second review were also subjected to qualitative and quantitative analysis. However, this time the quantitative review included the use of the Content-Validity Ratio [CVR]. All items on the Criteria List that were not statistically significant at p <.05 were eliminated. The final Criteria List contained 27 items from the 39 originally proposed items. / Department of Physiology and Health Science

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/186156
Date January 1998
CreatorsChamness, Brenda E.
ContributorsKotecki, Jerome E.
Source SetsBall State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
Formatiii, 140 leaves ; 28 cm.
SourceVirtual Press

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