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 MGMT1040 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. What is the best thing to do when you visit the Business Library to obtain help with a research assignment or project?
3. Which information resource is best for information about a business event or development which happened a month ago?
4. This is a citation to what kind of resource?:
Schendler, Auden. (2007), "When Being Green Backfires", Harvard Business Review, 85.10 (October), 35-38
5. To identify books in a library collection you would search:
6. You can use the York University Libraries’ catalogue to:
7. Which one of the following search tools would be most effective for finding scholarly articles on a business topic?
8. To find the following article you would begin searching by 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
9. When searching the library catalogue, which search string will find the MOST records?
10. To retrieve all variations on the word "canada", i.e., canada, canadian etc., which truncated form would be best?
11. A peer reviewed article is:
12. Which of the following describes a peer reviewed article?
13. From the following list, please select the databases that you have used to search for business information:
14. You must write a paper on the real nature of health risks posed by incidents of BSE (Mad Cow Disease) in Canada. Which of the following is most likely to provide balanced information?
15. Which of the following strategies may result in a plagiarism violoation?