Information Competency Quiz

 
Understanding the Ethical, Legal, and Socio-Political Issues Surrounding Information and Information Technology


 

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1) All of the following are commonly used style manuals EXCEPT:
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Modern Language Association)
Chicago Manual of Style
Style Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Publishers Style Handbook for Research

2) A student should provide full citations to the sources used in a research paper in order to:
Give credit to the author
Allow somebody else to find the sources
Lend credibility to the research paper
All of the above

3) Which of the following information should your citation for a website include?
Author (if available), title of the webpage, title of the complete work (if applicable), date created (if available), the complete URL, date visited
Author, title, publisher, year copyrighted
Permission from the website's author for you to cite the work
You may not use web resources for research papers

4) Students can copy most information from a U.S. government site without permission.
True
False

5) It is not necessary to provide citations for materials taken from the web.
True
False

6) Taking someone's ideas and presenting them as your own is:
Intellectual property
Fair Use
Plagiarism
All of the above

7) Everything on the Internet is freely available for anyone to download and/or copy for his/her own use.
True
False

8) Cookies can track:
Which websites you've visited
Where you go within a particular website
Your newsgroup postings
All of the above

9) Information in the "public domain" is non-copyrighted material which is freely available for anyone to use.
True
False

10) Some web browsers record a history of the sites you've visited over a designated period of time.
True
False


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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.