AN INSIGHT INTO ACCESSING RELIABLE INTERNET SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS AND RESEARCHERS

Educational administrators, researchers and other scholars are of the view that research is a systematic investigation or a careful study using material and resources that can reduce or remove uncertainties in order to establish facts, findings or report new knowledge or even reach a conclusion about issues. The internet as an unrestricted global and galactic information infrastructure, and also a mechanism for a source of information for research in order to achieve qualitative and reliable result considering the rate of misrepresentation of information in the present-day world. This paper therefore looks at some factors to be considered when using the internet as a source of information for research from the perspective of credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and support (C.A.R.S) checklist.