Academic Research & Library Skills practice test

Question: Evelyn uses online journal databases, Google Scholar, and government websites to locate, sift through, and evaluate available information about the prevalence of childhood obesity. This example BEST illustrates which of the following concepts?

Answer Choices:
Digital literacy
Visual literacy
Hyperconnectivity
Networking

Answer: Digital literacy

Question: Which of the following is a type of information format you can use when taking notes?

Answer Choices:
General knowledge
Quoting
Summarizing
Paraphrasing
All of the above

Answer: All of the above

Question: “Martin Luther King Jr.” in an encyclopedia entry about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is most likely an example of what kind of source?

Answer Choices:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
None of these

Answer: Tertiary

Question: Which of the following is NOT a popular online tool specifically for note taking?

Answer Choices:
Google Drive
Evernote
Mendeley
OneNote

Answer: Google Drive

Question: You have been asked to plan the retirement party for your boss. What is the best tool to use to find a caterer for the event?

Answer Choices:
The Ashford Library databases.
The Ashford Library Book collection.
Your local library.
An internet search engine like Google or Bing.

Answer: An internet search engine like Google or Bing.

Question: If the source you decide to use is sponsored by an organization, you should research the mission of that organization to assess the source’s potential level of bias.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: The following are examples of Secondary Source material except:

Answer Choices:
textbooks
magazine articles
biographies
a diary

Answer: a diary

Question: Why is it important to know what publisher is behind the publication of a source?

Answer Choices:
The publisher’s bias may be present in a source.
The publisher may offer a discount on the source.
The publisher may be open to accepting book proposals from other people.
None of the above.

Answer: The publisher’s bias may be present in a source.

Question: Out of the following four choices, which should come first in the framing process as you organize your notes?

Answer Choices:
Ask yourself whether you have found out everything you want to about your topic. If not, you should continue researching.
Choose between a conceptual, chronological, or hierarchical framing format.
Decide on a logical framework for your information by first considering the audience, structure, and purpose for it.
Weed out any irrelevant information in your notes. If it’s not on topic, move it out of your note pile.

Answer: Ask yourself whether you have found out everything you want to about your topic. If not, you should continue researching.

Question: The fact that males are, on average, slightly larger than females is referred to as:
A) gender differentiation.
B) sexual dimorphism.
C) masculine advantage.
D) sexual stereotyping.

Answer: B) sexual dimorphism.

Question: Information that has been altered from its original form does not run any risk of containing errors.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: False

Question: You are hoping to buy concert tickets for your friend’s upcoming birthday. Which of the following tools is most likely to help you find a vendor selling the tickets that you’d like to buy?

Answer Choices:
Google
The Ashford Library’s research databases
The Ashford Library’s e-book collection
The Ashford Library

Answer: Google

Question: Sometimes multiple methods of note taking are necessary, including paper and online notes.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a digital library?

Answer Choices:
A digital library never closes.
A digital library is accessible from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection.
Resources in a digital library can often be accessed by many users at once.
Digital Libraries require modest fees to check out materials.

Answer: Digital Libraries require modest fees to check out materials.

Question: In health care, the Lean methodology defines waste as which of the following?

Answer Choices:
A. Overproduction and inventory
B. Motion and transportation
C. Overprocessing and waiting
D. Defects and underutilization of staff
E. Overproduction, inventory, overprocessing, and waiting
F. All of these are correct.

Answer: F. All of these are correct.

Question: Jennifer, who is writing an essay on Frederick Douglass, looks up his information on Wikipedia to get a better understanding of the background of the topic. She does not include the Wikipedia source in her essay, but she does use the references section of Wikipedia to access a few scholarly articles. What type of source is this given her topic?

Answer Choices:
Tertiary
Secondary
Primary
None of the above

Answer: Secondary

Question: The Ashford Online Library houses several electronic resource databases. Which of the following database contains more than 110,000 e-books covering all academic disciplines?

Answer Choices:
ProQuest
EBSCO
ebrary
Academic Search Premier

Answer: ebrary

Question: Which of the following is NOT a popular search engine?

Answer Choices:
EBSCOhost
Google
Yahoo
Bing

Answer: EBSCOhost

Question: Which of the following is not an example of a tertiary source?

Answer Choices:
Almanac
Dictionary
Atlas
Scholarly journal article

Answer: Scholarly journal article

Question: You’ve read this week’s assignment in your English class three times but you still don’t understand what it is asking you to do. What resource is likely to help you understand the assignment?

Answer Choices:
Your instructor
Tutoring on Demand
Google Scholar

Answer: Your instructor

Question: It is appropriate to utilize quality multimedia that passes the CRAAP evaluation in an academic essay as long as you have your instructor’s approval to do so.

Answer Choices:
True
False

Answer: True

Question: Which one of the following systems for accessing information would you use if you wanted to find a book located in your public library?

Answer Choices:
Online public access catalog
Ashford Library catalog
Google Scholar
Ebrary

Answer: Online public access catalog

Question: If you need to save a journal article that you found while searching the Ashford Library’s research databases, which of the following is an effective way of doing that?

Answer Choices:
Download and print the article.
Download and save the article to your computer.
Download and save the article to a thumb drive, cloud storage, or another type of accessible storage.
All of these.

Answer: All of these.

Question: Based on the reference, what type of source is this?
Lindsay, L. (2014). The history of art and data: art from antiquity until the present day. Library.Unicorn Edu. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.is.unicornschool.edu/fulltext=ebook&db=21391&AN=an180960125&site=eds-live&scope=site

Answer Choices:
an eBook
a web page
a scholarly article
none of these

Answer: an eBook

Academic Research & Library Skills practice test

Question: Evelyn uses online journal databases, Google Scholar, and government websites to locate, sift through, and evaluate available information about the prevalence of childhood obesity. This example BEST illustrates which of the following concepts?

Question: Which of the following is a type of information format you can use when taking notes?

Question: “Martin Luther King Jr.” in an encyclopedia entry about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is most likely an example of what kind of source?

Question: Which of the following is NOT a popular online tool specifically for note taking?

Question: You have been asked to plan the retirement party for your boss. What is the best tool to use to find a caterer for the event?

Question: If the source you decide to use is sponsored by an organization, you should research the mission of that organization to assess the source’s potential level of bias.

Question: The following are examples of Secondary Source material except:

Question: Why is it important to know what publisher is behind the publication of a source?

Question: Out of the following four choices, which should come first in the framing process as you organize your notes?

Question: The fact that males are, on average, slightly larger than females is referred to as:A) gender differentiation. B) sexual dimorphism. C) masculine advantage. D) sexual stereotyping.

Question: Information that has been altered from its original form does not run any risk of containing errors.

Question: You are hoping to buy concert tickets for your friend’s upcoming birthday. Which of the following tools is most likely to help you find a vendor selling the tickets that you’d like to buy?

Question: Sometimes multiple methods of note taking are necessary, including paper and online notes.

Question: Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a digital library?

Question: In health care, the Lean methodology defines waste as which of the following?

Question: The Ashford Online Library houses several electronic resource databases. Which of the following database contains more than 110,000 e-books covering all academic disciplines?

Question: Which of the following is NOT a popular search engine?

Question: Which of the following is not an example of a tertiary source?

Question: You’ve read this week’s assignment in your English class three times but you still don’t understand what it is asking you to do. What resource is likely to help you understand the assignment?

Question: It is appropriate to utilize quality multimedia that passes the CRAAP evaluation in an academic essay as long as you have your instructor’s approval to do so.

Question: Which one of the following systems for accessing information would you use if you wanted to find a book located in your public library?

Question: If you need to save a journal article that you found while searching the Ashford Library’s research databases, which of the following is an effective way of doing that?

Question: The fact that males are, on average, slightly larger than females is referred to as:
A) gender differentiation.
B) sexual dimorphism.
C) masculine advantage.
D) sexual stereotyping.