Information Competency Quiz

 
Determine your Information Needs


 

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1) For every research assignment, you need to:
Consult journal articles, books, and brief summaries
Read the assignment carefully to determine your research needs
Consult both primary and secondary sources
Spend 15-20 hours researching your topic

2) For a paper about recent immigrants to New York City and where they come from, you may need to include:
Published interviews with NYC officials
Demographic statistics on the residents of NYC
Maps
All of the above

3) Which are examples of primary sources?
Journal articles, bibliographies, encyclopedia article
Newspaper articles, biographies, journal articles
Interviews, diaries, letters
Citations, biographies, bibliographies

4) In addition to books, what other types of resources might you need for an assignment?
Newspaper articles
Journal articles
The Web
All of the above

5) What are some issues to consider at the start of a research project?
Whether you need primary or secondary sources
Whether currency (most recently published materials) is an issue
How much information you need
All of the above

6) What is a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal?
A journal that only includes articles that were reviewed by experts in the field
A journal that only includes articles on a single subject
A journal that only includes articles written by government agencies
Any journal published online

7) Which of the following research topics require the most current (most recent) information sources?
William Shakespeare's plays
Diabetes treatments for children
The U.S. Civil War
None of the above

8) What are examples of secondary sources?
Autobiographies
Diaries and Interviews
Biographies
None of the above

9) If you need help with your research, you can ask a reference librarian for help.
True
False

10) When starting a research paper, what do you need to consider?
Whether you need to use primary sources
How much information you will need
Whether point of view (bias) is an issue
All of the above


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Spanish translation of the CUNY Information Competency Tutorials was made possible by a grant from the CUNY Office of Compliance and Diversity, Diversity Projects Development Fund. Prof. José Diaz, Hostos Community College and Prof. George Thorsen, Queensborough Community College translated these modules into Spanish.  The Hostos Community College Instructional Technology support center staff migrated all of the IL Competency modules into a new, more attractive format as part of a Perkins Grant to provide 24/6 online tutorial resources to students. A special thanks goes to Hostos Community College and George Rosa, Elkin Urrea, and Carlos Victoria for their work on the migration and design.