Ranking the Criteria of Quality Evaluation for Intellectual Information on Internet

Recent past has witnessed the fast use of the information and communication technology in the ever developing field of education. Enormous information is brought to the classroom for easy access by the learner anywhere in the world. Learners of today are distinguished by their proficiency in use of technology to know about assessment and successful management of informational opportunities. Critical analysis of existing education scenario emphasizes the introduction of major thrust areas as Information Communication Technology, literacy, organization of curriculum, and others. This is to elevate the standard of education and disseminate the information in shortest time with use of online and offline resources through internet. These are for professional growth, teaching support materials and other classroom related activities. The research work and true knowledge of topics calls for the need to evaluate the information provided on the internet. The present paper caters to this need, especially in context to intellectual information available on the internet. The research work in this paper is accomplished by selecting a system of quality criteria and defining in terms of internet usage for intellectual purpose. Several questions are designed to assess each criterion and as a result an instrument is developed and validated in the form of a questionnaire. The quality criteria taken into consideration are as Content, Objective reasoning, Scope, Authority; these are further classified into indicators for easy assessment. The collected data has been tabulated and analysed to rank the criteria as per their preference for quality assessment of the intellectual information available on the internet. The results indicate that authority is the most preferred criteria while objective reasoning is the least preferred one as per their calculated mean values.