Suggested Pre-Test Introduction:
The purpose of this information literacy quiz is to help the library instructor(s) learn from the outset about information literacy and library skills of students enrolled in this course. In this way instruction can be geared to help students improve in areas which need most attention.
Please take 10-15 minutes to answer the following questions. If you don’t know the answer please select the response “I don't know”, rather than guessing, as this will give us an indication of what areas to focus on in library instruction.
Your responses are entirely anonymous, and will not count for marks.
Suggested Post-Test Introduction:
The purpose of this information literacy quiz is to help the library instructors gauge the success of the library session with students enrolled in this course. Class responses will shed light on areas where instruction was successful in conveying concepts, and where there is room for improvement.
Please take 10-15 minutes to answer the following questions. If you don’t know the answer please select the response “I don't know”, rather than guessing, as this will give us an indication of what areas to focus on in library instruction.
Your responses are entirely anonymous, and will not count for marks.
1. Which services do most university libraries offer to students?
2. What are the major disciplines of knowledge?
3. Publications such as magazines and journals are called:
4. The most effective approach to finding scholarly articles on a topic, would involve consulting:
5. Select the best key search terms below for the research question:
“Does incarceration have a negative influence on the offspring of female inmates in the penal system?”
6. To find the following article you would begin searching by using?
Smith, M.D. "The Empire Filters Back: Consumption, Production and the Politics of Starbuck's Coffee". Urban Geography 17 (1996): 502-525.
7. When searching a library database which search will find the MOST records:
8. You can use the York University Libraries’ catalogue to find:
9. If you find a good article on your topic, of the options suggested below, which would prove most efficient in finding related articles?
10. Which of the following pieces of information in this library catalogue record shown below will help you find this book on the library shelves? (choose all that apply)
11. Which of the following statements are true about the internet?
12. Which information resource is best for information about something which happened a month ago?
13. 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
14. You have been told by your professor you need to cite information in a specific citation style but don’t know how to do this. What strategies could you adopt to help you with this?
15. You copy a paragraph directly from an article you found. You cite the sources, but you forget to put quotation marks. Is this plagiarism?