You’ve finished Evaluating Information Sources — well done. Here’s a quick recap to lock it in, and the best places to go next.

What you’ve learned

Across five lessons, you explored:

• Evaluating Sources — the CRAAP test — five quick questions for any source.
• Scholarly vs Popular Sources — telling the two apart and knowing when to use each.
• Identifying Bias — spotting the lean every source carries.
• Fact-Checking Techniques — lateral reading and tracing claims to their origin.
• Digital Source Evaluation — judging websites on the open web.

Make it stick

Next time something surprising lands in your feed, pause and read laterally on it — open a new tab and see what independent sources say before you believe or share.

Where to go next

If you enjoyed this course, these are the natural next steps:

• Digital Information Literacy — apply your critical eye across the digital world.
• Citation and Referencing — credit the trustworthy sources you find.

And the rest of the FRELIP toolkit is always there to put your new skills to work:

• Discovery search — find books and articles.
• Research guides — curated starting points by subject.
• Open-access journal feeds — keep current.
• All FRELIP courses — browse the full catalogue.

This courseware is provided free by FRELIP. Original text released under CC BY 4.0; linked resources remain under their own licences. Curated by the FRELIP Open Courseware editorial team.