Although the CRAAP Test has some value and is commonly used, a Stanford study compared the results of critical web evaluation searches between students and faculty using the CRAAP test and professional fact checkers. The fact-checkers won!
While the students and faculty using the CRAAP did a thorough examination of the website, the “fact-checkers…almost immediately began an independent verification process, a strategy the researchers dubbed “lateral reading”—opening multiple tabs, and searching for independent information on the publishing organization, funding sources, and other factors that might indicate the reliability and perspective of the site and its authors or sponsors.” (Fielding, 2019)
Fielding, J. (2019). Rethinking CRAAP: Getting students thinking like fact-checkers in evaluating web sources. College & Research Libraries
News, 80(11), 620. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.80.11.620
Currency: the timeliness of the information
Relevance: the importance of the information for your needs
Authority: the source of the information
Accuracy: the reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the content, and
Purpose: the reason the information exists
The CRAAP test was developed by librarians at CSU Chico. https://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf