What is validity?
Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary defines validity, “Having legal efficacy or force; especially: executed with the proper legal authority and formalities “a valid contract” and 2a. Well-grounded or justifiable: being at once relevant and meaningful “a valid theory: b. Logically correct “a valid argument” “valid inference”.”
With this definition I believe valid in a sense means truth. Truth matters no matter what. When I research the news, authors of a book, research for papers, and teach others I want to know the facts. We live in a day and age where news travels fast. I want to be accurate with the information that I use. Validity is an important issue!
How to Determine if a Website is Valid?
A valid website is a website that uses valid HTML or XHTML code according to the W3C, or World Wide Web Consortium. The W3C promotes web standards, universal sets of programming guidelines designed to improve web usability and minimize badly constructed code. Luckily, the W3C runs a validation service that allows you to instantly check to see if any website is valid.
How can you check the validity of the information? \
By checking on many, many reliable sources, such as info trac, or the popular, CQResearcher. -Information from Ansers.com
Steps to evaluate the credibility of the source?
1. Think about how reliable you need the information to be.
2. Consider the medium with which you are working.
A peer-reviewed journal is considered a reliable source because each article must undergo a rigorous review process, with many professional reviewers involved.
3. Research the author.
Where does the author work? Is the author is affiliated with reputable institution or organization, what its values and goals? Do they benefit financially by promoting a particular view?
What is his/her educational background? What other works has the author published? What experience does the author have? He/she innovator or a follower and promoter of the status quo? Has this author been cited as a source by other scholars or experts in the field?
4. Check the date.
5. Investigate the publisher.
6. Determine the intended audience.
7. Check the reviews.
8. Evaluate the source’s sources.
9. Identify bias.
10. Evaluate Consistency.
11. Investigate the financial or funding sources for sponsored research.
-WikiHow
Checking the information from several different sources is a really important factor when using the internet for information. I also think that researching the author is key. All to often people take information from the internet accepting it as truth and valid, but the internet can have anything published so when using something as a fact it is important that we can back it up with more than one source.
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