Project
Strategies for Critically Appraising Children’s Health Web Resources
Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Connie Varnhagen, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, email: varn@ualberta.ca, phone: 780-492-0970; Matthew Stephens, Research Coordinator
Start/End Date: 2004 - 2006
Location: Canada-wide
Brief Description: Two year project to study how parents, researchers and clinicians in a variety of areas of pediatric health examine on-line resources in order to gain understanding of how experienced users navigate resources and offer a way to transfer this expertise back to communities. Project will design evaluation criteria to enable novice users of Internet to effectively evaluate children’s health web resources. Long-term goal of the project is the creation of materials to help different user groups (parents, teachers and clinicians) effectively evaluate web-based resources for FASD and other areas of children’s health.
Time Frame: ongoing
Kind of Project: research
Population Served: all users of Internet
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