Making a list and checking it twice.

I always cringe when someone tells me that they used someone else’s program assessment plan as a model for their own plan. When I ask why the particular plan was chosen, I generally get the reply, “Well it was on the web and the program just got accredited so it must be good.” As educators, we are often faced with helping students know how to filter all the “stuff” that is on the web, which they tend to reference and sometimes (to our dismay) copy. One of the ways we help them is to provide guidelines to follow as they search out credible reference materials.