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Ratings for
Top Student Sources
Turnitin created the SEER (Source Educational Evaluation Rubric) to help teach students how to evaluate the sources they use in their writing. A number of educators tested the rubric on the most popular websites that students use for sourcing material. How did these websites rank? Take a look below…
| angelfire.com | 1.74 | 1.86 | 2.00 | 1.86 | 1.71 | 1.29 | 671884 |
| answers.com | 1.84 | 1.57 | 1.86 | 2.43 | 1.76 | 1.57 | 3186959 |
| answers.yahoo.com | 1.56 | 1.29 | 1.50 | 2.00 | 1.86 | 1.14 | 3188527 |
| ask.com | 1.34 | 1.05 | 1.19 | 2.19 | 1.24 | 1.05 | 556254 |
| authorstream.com | 1.77 | 1.00 | 1.79 | 2.29 | 1.86 | 1.93 | 1060107 |
| blogs.myspace.com | 0.57 | 0.14 | 0.71 | 1.00 | 0.71 | 0.29 | 564712 |
| chacha.com | 1.17 | 0.71 | 1.29 | 1.57 | 1.29 | 1.00 | 107804 |
| clipmarks.com | 1.30 | 0.71 | 1.00 | 1.86 | 1.62 | 1.33 | 543546 |
| digg.com | 2.11 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 1.3 | 2.3 | 275734 |
| en.wikisource.org | 2.14 | 1.86 | 2.29 | 2.29 | 2.14 | 2.14 | 195078 |
| everything2.com | 1.14 | 0.43 | 1.14 | 1.57 | 1.71 | 0.86 | 370019 |
| faqs.org | 1.13 | 1.00 | 1.70 | 1.00 | 0.70 | 1.30 | 496893 |
| goodreads.com | 1.86 | 1.38 | 1.81 | 2.38 | 1.95 | 1.76 | 374887 |
| helium.com | 1.61 | 1.43 | 1.64 | 1.71 | 1.86 | 1.43 | 435540 |
| hubpages.com | 1.54 | 0.86 | 1.43 | 2.00 | 2.14 | 1.29 | 878995 |
| justanswer.com | 0.40 | 0.00 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.00 | 1202430 |
| myspace.com | 0.70 | 0.33 | 0.57 | 1.10 | 0.90 | 0.57 | 173155 |
| scribd.com | 2.07 | 2.00 | 2.43 | 2.07 | 1.71 | 2.14 | 3461809 |
| sites.google.com | 1.91 | 1.71 | 2.29 | 2.43 | 1.57 | 1.57 | 859680 |
| slideshare.net | 1.61 | 1.71 | 1.86 | 1.50 | 1.43 | 1.57 | 4051018 |
| squidoo.com | 1.36 | 1.05 | 1.29 | 1.67 | 1.33 | 1.48 | 651951 |
| voices.yahoo.com | 1.44 | 1.21 | 1.57 | 1.43 | 1.57 | 1.43 | 324577 |
| wiki.answers.com | 1.45 | 1.05 | 1.43 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.24 | 801802 |