Information Literacy Assessment 2013
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 433
This assessment is designed to find out more about the information literacy skills of GBS's incoming freshmen. Thank you for your participation.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Take a few minutes to look at this site on the Burmese Mountain Dog: http://burmesemountaindog.info There are several questions below related to the site.
- 2.Where would be the best place to find in-depth information about the history of heavy metal music?
- A.
Website
- B.
Book
- C.
Biography database
- D.
Newspaper database
- 3.Which of the following would be the best place to find a local perspective on a current event?
- A.
Newspaper
- B.
Book
- C.
Literature database
- D.
General encyclopedia
- 4.Is there a publication date or copyright date on the page?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- 5.Do you think this a reliable, trustworthy site?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- 6.If you were searching for information on the ethics of cloning humans, which would be the better keyword search:
- A.
What are ethical issues involved in cloning people
- B.
Ethics AND Human AND cloning
- 7.Does this site have an "about us" or other section that provides information about the person or organization that created the site?
- A.
Yes
- B.
No
- 8.True or False: It’s impossible to know whether a Wikipedia entry is reliable
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.A search engine (e.g. Google, Bing) will return results from:
- A.
A personal email
- B.
Subscription databases from the GBS Library
- C.
A commercial website
- D.
A password protected web site
- 10.A web site that allows visitors to make changes, contributions, or corrections is called a:
- A.
Blog
- B.
Home Site
- C.
Hot Mess
- D.
Wiki
- 11.In libraries, nonfiction books are organized by:
- A.
Author
- B.
Title
- C.
Publication date
- D.
Subject
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