Pre-Test for Nursing 363/401

To Nursing 363/401 students:
In order to assess the effectiveness of the nursing research tutorial, please complete the following pre-test before completing the tutorial. Don't worry if you don't the answers. We just want to assess what you know before you complete the tutorial. This pre-test goes only to the library.
Thank you, Renee Davis 683-4484

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name:

Age:19 or younger 20-30 31-40 41-50 over 50

Status: undergraduate graduate other

full-time student part-time student

part-time employed in nursing full-time employed in nursing
part-time employed other full-time employed other not employed

Degree You Are Seeking:BSN MSN BA Other

Primary Location:

Teletechnet or Online RN/BSN student
Local Distance RN/BSN student
On-Campus RN/BSN student
Weekend Pre-Licensure student
Weekday Pre-Licensure student
Other 
When did you take a basic writing course which required library research (for example, English 111)?
2005  2003-2004  2001-2002  1999-2000  before 1999  never took one 
Please rate your information-finding skills:
I feel confident using a library's print and electronic resources to find research materials.
I feel comfortable using print resources, but not as comfortable with electronic resources.
I feel comfortable using electronic resources, but not as comfortable with print resources.
I have some library research skills, but need more. 
I feel totally lost when it comes to finding research materials.
Other: 
PRE-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. To do a comprehensive search for journal articles on your topic, which would be the best resource?
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 would be 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 
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