The purpose of this Pre-test questionnaire is to help the instructors learn from the outset about information literacy and library skills of students enrolled in AK/WRIT 2000 at York. In this way instruction can be geared to help students improve in areas which need most attention.
Your responses are entirely anonymous, and will not count for marks.
Please take about 15 minutes to answer the following questions. If you don’t know an answer, please mark it as “I don’t know”, rather than guessing, as this will give us an indication of what kind areas to focus on in our teaching.
1. Have you ever attended any of the following? Please check all that apply.
2. From the following list, please select the databases that you have used to search for business information:
3. The best place to look for a very general introduction to a topic such as corporate social responsibility is:
4. Which information resource is best for information about a business event or development which happened a month ago?
5. Books in an academic library are shelved by:
6. A scholarly article is published in a:
7. This is a citation to what kind of resource?:
Gulas, C.S. and Schewe, C.D. (1994), "Atmospheric segmentation: managing store image with background music", in Acrol, R. and Michell A. (Eds), Enhancing Knowledge Development in Marketing, North-Holland, New York, NY, pp. 151-63
8. This is a citation to what kind of resource?:
Hart, Christopher W., James Heskett, and W. Earl Sasser, Jr. (1990), "The Profitable Art of Service Recovery", Harvard Business Review, 68 (July/August), 148-56
9. To identify books in a library collection you would search:
10. You can use the York University Libraries’ catalogue to:
11. You want to find journal articles on a topic and don’t know which database to use. Which of the following links on the Libraries’ home page would link you to a list of databases and other resources in your subject area?
12. You have a reference or citation to a journal article. To most reliably determine whether York University libraries owns this article online you would use:
13. To find the following citation you could search a catalogue using:
Mitchell, R. K., Agle, B.R. and Wood, D. J. (1997) "Towards a theory of stakeholder identification and salience: Defining the principle of who and what really counts" Academy of Management Review, Vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 853-886
14. You are asked to find scholarly books and articles for an essay topic as follows: Marketing to teenagers
Which of the following search strings would work best typed in the search box of the library catalogue or an articles database:
15. A peer reviewed article is:
16. You are asked to find books and articles on an essay topic as follows: rebranding in the airlines industry in a Canadian context
17. To retrieve all variations on the word "technology" which truncated form would be best when conducting a database search?