Information literacy

What three things should you consider when evaluating a website?

• Layout, Graphics and Publisher

• Navigation, Structure and Format

• Authority, Purpose and Currency

• Date, Government, and Accuracy

Which of the following is a characteristic of a scholarly journal?

• Read by the general public

• Published weekly

• Article includes references

• Current events

What is the best option when you find too much information?

• Change your topic

• Narrow your question

• Broaden your question

• Only use the first few results

Which of the following documents does NOT constitute a secondary source?

• A fiction novel by J.K. Rowling

• A newspaper article review

• A U.S. history textbook

• A World War II-era autobiography

Primary sources are ideally created within _____ of a given event.

• one year

• one week

• one month

• one decade

Which of the following is an example of a peer-reviewed journal?

• Journal of Reviews on Global Economics

• Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

• Journal of American Medicine (JAMA)

• All of the above

Which is NOT an acceptable source for a research paper?

• Scholarly journal article

• Government website

• Wikipedia

• Newspaper article

Which of the following best describes “information literacy”?

• The ability fo use Google

• The ability to read

• The ability to use a computer

• The ability fo find reliable information

An information literate person should first understand the question to figure out the type of information sources he or she needed.

• True

• False

Information needed only comes from one source or method.

• True

• False