Working paper from the Stanford History Education Group on the results of a study comparing the web evaluation practices of professional fact checkers, history professors, and Stanford undergraduates.
Video from the News Literacy Project of "the Easiest Quiz of All Time," in which people on the street are challenged to examine their own assumptions about web searching.
Selected Fact-Checking Organizations
The following sites are drawn from Mike Caulfield's recommendations in Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. See the full list here.
Use these sites to "check for previous work," Caulfield's recommended first step.
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on key U.S. races during election years and on Congress outside the election season.