Develop your digital literacy skills – evaluate resources and critically appraise articles

Once you’ve found information that matches your search criteria you need to check that it is valid and relevant for your needs.

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You can complete our etutorials or book on training to develop your evaluation and critical appraisal skills:

Evaluating Information – get to grips with the CRAAP tool to help you to assess resources
Finding Information on the Internet – learn more about good quality, healthcare-specific, online resources
Critical Appraisal Tools – learn about the many different tools available to help you to critically appraise articles
Evidence Hierarchy – learn how the evidence hierarchy can help you to identify any issues with research papers
Critical Appraisal for Absolute Beginners: Qualitative Study – book on this training course and practice critically appraising a qualitative paper
Critical Appraisal for Absolute Beginners: Randomised Controlled Trial – book on this training course and practice critically appraising an RCT paper

Developing your digital literacy skills will help you to choose good quality information sources.

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