Politics Information Literacy Assessment, Form #11.2, Part B

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Date: 11/08/09 01:07:23

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This assessment is designed to measure your skills in accessing, evaluating, and presenting political information. The goal is to compare the skills of those soon to be graduated with those beginning their undergraduate careers. This assessment has no influence on your grade in any course, and your score will be kept confidential.

This assessment must be completed in 30 minutes.
If you are stumped by a question, skip it. You can return to skipped questions later if time permits.

***You CAN use the Internet and/or library sources to answer these questions***
  1. Who wrote the opinion in the court case of Oswalt v. Barnhart (2005)?
    Answer:
    Source where you found the answer:

  2. What is the popular name for Public Law 103-06?
    Answer:
    Source where you found the answer:

  3. For users of Cole Library, in which of the following sources is the full text of the New Republic available online from 1990 to the present?
    1. Wilson Select Full Text Plus
    2. Academnic Search Primer
    3. Cole Library Catalog
    4. Lexis Nexis

Locate the full text of this article online to answer questions 4 and 5.

Shenon, P. (2003, July 21). Report on U.S. antiterrorism law alleges violations of civil rights. New York Times, p. A1.

  1. According to the article, the Justice Department’s inspector general received how many “complaints of civil rights and civil liberties violations by department employees that it considered credible” from December 16, 2002 through June 15, 2003?
    Answer:

  2. This source is best described as
    1. Scholarly and primary
    2. Popular and primary
    3. Scholarly and secondary
    4. Popular and secondary

Locate the full text of this article to answer questions 6 and 7.

Tomz, Michael and Robert P. Van Houweling. “How Does Voting Equipment Affect the Racial Gap in Voided Ballots?” American Journal of Political Science 47.1 (January 2003): 46-60.

  1. The dataset used in this study is derived from voting records of the two states that officially report the race of voters. Which states are they?
    Answer:

  2. This source is best described as
    1. Scholarly and primary
    2. Popular and primary
    3. Scholarly and secondary
    4. Popular and secondary

    3. Thank you for completing this politics information literacy assessment. Please answer the following background questions before submitting your assessment.

  3. In what country did you attend high school (please do not abbreviate the United States)?


  4. If you attended high school in the United States, in which state (please do not abbreviate the state name)?


  5. What type of high school did you attend?



  6. How big was your high school, approximately?






  7. Did your high school have a school librarian?



  8. How many times did you have library instruction (either in a classroom setting or one-on-one) from a high school librarian?



  9. In your high school experience, which of the following did you use for school assignments? (Check all that apply)
    Online library catalog
    Print reference resources, such as World Book Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, etc.
    Online or electronic encyclopedia, such as Britannica Online or Encarta
     Online library-subscribed databases, such as EBSCOhost databases (Academic Search Elite, Business Source Elite, etc.), First Search databases, LexisNexis databases, etc.
    Web search engine, such as Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, etc.


  10. How many times have you had library instruction (either in a classroom setting or one-on-one) with ANY librarian at Cornell College?