IRSC Information Literacy Assessment 2016-17

By completing this brief assessment, you are helping us evaluate how well we teach you to use library resources. There is no grade and it is anonymous. We want to thank you for your participation.

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* 1. Which librarian provided instruction for your class?

Kendra Auberry

Alexis Carlson

Angie Neely-Sardon

Mia Tignor

Brett Williams

Katherine Williams

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* 2. Who is your instructor for this course?

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* 3. Which statement listed below is characteristic of scholarly or peer-reviewed sources?

The articles appear in popular magazines.

The articles are written for the general public.

The articles are written by experts.

All of the above.

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* 4. When selecting search terms it is advisable to:

Use the exact terminology listed in this assignment.

Type in full-length sentences or use natural language searching.

Use specific keywords derived from a thesis statement.

Use only very general terms like "science".

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* 5. Where could one find information about an event which occurred yesterday?

Books.

Websites.

Encyclopedias.

Scholarly journals.

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* 6. When choosing a research topic, it is a good idea to consider:

The parameters of the assignment.

Your personal interests.

Your academic or professional interests.

All of the above.

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* 7. What is a reason to use a newspaper or popular magazine article rather than a scholarly journal article in a research paper?

The scholarly community has not yet examined your topic.

You don't have enough time to find out if scholars have examined your topic.

You saw a newspaper article related to your topic so you will just use that.

The scholarly articles related to your topic are too long.

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* 8. Which of the following would constitute plagiarism?

Asking a friend to read over your paper for grammatical errors before turning it in.

Consulting the Internet for keywords to use in your database searches.

Turning in the same paper for more than one assignment.

Reading other people’s opinions before forming your own opinion regarding an idea.

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* 9. IRSC Libraries offer help finding articles. How should you obtain the full text of an article if you have a citation?

Request it through IRSC Libraries’ interlibrary loan service.

Ask a librarian for help.

Use one of the libraries’ databases and limit by full-text.

Use Google Scholar to find open access, academic articles.

All of the above.

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* 10. When searching in a database you receive too many search results. How can you narrow your search results?

Remove the full-text limiter.

Add more descriptive search terms.

Delete a keyword.

Remove the scholarly/peer-review limiter.

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* 11. Wikipedia is typically not a good source for college research papers, but it is one of many great sources for pre-research. Pre-research should be used to do which of the following?

Catch up on previous events and research findings on a topic.

Learn about important keywords commonly used for a topic.

Learn about foundation researchers and articles related to a topic.

Find out if the topic interests you before you commit to it.

All of the above.

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* 12. Why do IRSC students have to login to access the databases?

Because the databases are expensive subscription resources available only to IRSC students and staff.

So IRSC can track which student uses which database.

To make it more difficult to use the library.

To help students remember their date of birth.

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* 13. Which of the following is a sign of a source’s credibility?

The author's name is listed.

The article contains poor grammar and misspelled words.

The website appeared first in the list of search results.

All of the above.

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* 14. When conducting scholarly research students must:

Read only the articles that were published within the last year.

Read only the articles that support their opinion.

Read all articles relevant to their topic.

Read some articles that provide context for the research related to their topic.

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* 15. Will what you learned in this session help you to be more successful with your research assignment? Please share your thoughts.

Yes

No Opinion

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* 16. After attending the library research session, which areas are still confusing to you?

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