Assignment 6

Evaluation of Educational Resources

     The IXL Learning site provides students from Kindergarten through the 8th grade with the proper tools to help master their mathematics skills for their respective grade.  This site has a comprehensive listing of main math categories which is further broken down into subcategories.  As the students work through the problems, the site provides an explanation to every problem to help the student understand their errors.  As I worked through some of the problems at the 8th grade level the accuracy of the solutions were 100% correct.  Another good thing that was noticed was how simple the developers made it for students to easily navigate through each section of the website.  Once a student has worked through several math problems the parents can check their child's progress in a detailed report outlining the number of correct and incorrect problems as well as how much time was spent on a particular section.  This tells the parents whether or not their child has master a subcategory or needs more practice.  And most importantly the site definitely meets instructional objectives.  The IXL Learning site has included each states learning standards for math.  IXL Learning should definitely be used in the classroom to help students improve their math skills.

     Next, I conducted an evaluation of the Social Psychology Network's website credibility of the content.  Social Psychology Network is an educational organization founded by Dr. Scott Plous with over 9,500 members worldwide. The purpose of this website is to raise awareness of issues relating to psychology around the world and also as a research tool providing foundational and current information in the study of psychology.  All links seem to be reputable and creditable sources of information and all links are non-profit organizational websites supported by the National Science Foundation.  An excellent feature of the website is it's ability to function almost like a search engine comprised of reputable sources of information.  The Social Psychology Network provided unbiased, well organized, and sufficient information for my purpose of researching the Stanford Prison Experiment.  This website is highly recommended for all Psychology majors, educators, and professionals to remain aware and knowledgeable in the field of psychology.