Information Competency Quiz

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


 

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1) To find out how to cite sources properly, consult:
A Style Manual
An Encyclopedia
A Periodical Index
All of the above

2) An author must register a work to gain copyright.
True
False

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

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

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

6) In a research paper you should provide citations for all of the following sources except:
Interviews
Your own ideas
Internet sources
Congressional hearings

7) The section of Copyright Law that allows libraries and educational institutions to use copyrighted works is called:
Public Domain
Fair Use
Chicago Protocol
None of the above

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

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

10) 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


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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.