Post-Test for Nursing 363/401

To Nursing 363/401 students:
When you've completed the Nursing Research Tutorial, please take a few moments to complete this post-test. This post-test goes only to the library--your class instructor may administer a separate post-test.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Renee Davis 683-4484

Name:

POST-TEST

1. What is ODU Library's Web address? 

www.odu.edu/library
www.lib.odu.edu
web.library.edu
I have no idea 
2. ODU Library owns all journals indexed in all databases. 
true 
false
3. What is the most important resource for a comprehensive search for journal articles on your topic?
AltaVista
CINAHL
the ODU Library Online Catalog
WorldCat 
4. Which database can you use to find out what books and journals are owned by other libraries in the country? 
WorldCat 
CINAHL
ODU Library Online Catalog
Yahoo 
5. You are interested in the topic of stress in emergency room nurses. Which search statement is most likely to retrieve ONLY relevant material?
stress and nurse
emergency rooms
stress or emergency
stress and emergency and nurses 
6. Which search statement is likely to retrieve the largest number of records about patient attitudes toward pain? 
patients and attitudes and pain
patients and (attitudes or opinions or perceptions) and pain
patient attitudes and pain
patients or pain 
7. In order to retrieve records that contain the words diabetes or diabetic, you should truncate at which of the following roots: [using a * as the truncation symbol]
diab*
diabe*
diabet*
diabetes*
8. If you know an article's author and year, but not the title of the article, which of the following fields would you search in an electronic database to find the complete citation?
title
keyword 
author 
subject
9. Which of the following resources might you find if you consult a U.S. Government Web site? 
hearings
laws
statistics
all of the above
10. An ODU distance education student can borrow an item by using ODU's Interlibrary Loan service whether the library owns the item or not. 
True 
False 
11. Search the CINAHL database to find the publication date of the most recent RESEARCH ARTICLE from a CORE NURSING JOURNAL about predictors of postpartum depression. To begin, connect to the library's Databases page.  NOTE: Don't forget to return to this page and select the date from the options below!
2005  2004  2003  2001  1997 1996
12. After completing the Nursing Research Tutorial, do you feel:
more confident about your literature search skills
less confident about your literature search skills
unchanged in your literature searching abilities 
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