{"id":68,"date":"2012-11-06T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/ref\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:23:21","slug":"how-to-evaluate-info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/how-to-evaluate-info\/","title":{"rendered":"How to&#8230;Evaluate Information:  The CRAAP Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your information pass the CRAAP Test?\u00a0 Consider the following:<\/p>\n<table width=\"65%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"30%\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">C<\/span><\/strong>urrency\/Date<\/em><\/td>\n<td width=\"70%\">the timeliness of the information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R<\/span><\/strong>elevancy\/Coverage <\/em><\/td>\n<td>the importance and scope of the information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A<\/span><\/strong>ccuracy<\/em><\/td>\n<td>the reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A<\/span><\/strong>uthority<\/em><\/td>\n<td>the source of the information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">P<\/span><\/strong>urpose <\/em><\/td>\n<td>the reason the information exists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more details, see:\u00a0 <a href=\"\/ref\/howevalweb\">Evaluate Information: The CRAAP Test <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PDF File\" src=\"\/ref\/files\/pdf.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modified version of CRAAP Test created by Meriam Library at California State University, Chico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your information pass the CRAAP Test?\u00a0 Consider the following: Currency\/Date the timeliness of the information Relevancy\/Coverage the importance and scope of the information Accuracy the reliability, truthfulness, and correctness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}