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Question1.

CRAAP is an abbreviation for the following terms __________.

·         currency, relatedness, authority, accuracy, and purpose

·         currency, relevancy, authority, accuracy, and purpose

·         clarity, relatedness, author, accuracy, and purpose

·         currency, relatedness, authority, accuracy, and preparedness

Question 2

Which of the following authors would have the most credibility when writing on the subject of childcare in the United States?

·         A stay-at-home mother who cares for her own children.

·         A newspaper reporter who wrote an informational article on childcare government regulation.

·         An author who has a master degree in childcare administration and who has published an article in a scholarly journal on the most conducive environments for optimal child development.

·         None of the above authors are credible.

Question 3  

Sources with highly technical language are probably intended for audiences that:

·         are antagonistic toward the subject.

·         are experts on the subject.

·         have found the article in Wikipedia.

·         all of the above.

Question 4.  

 Why is it important to know who the author of a source is and what her or his background credentials are? :

·         You should make sure that the sources you reference in your papers have authors with the appropriate background to speak on a subject.

·         You should make sure your source authors have published in a particular geographical area.

·         You should make sure that the source authors have published in a variety of different areas.

·         You should make sure that you alphabetize the authors last names correctly on the Reference page.

Question 5

 Maagan is writing a paper on the use of technology in public schools for students in special education. She has found a source that was written in 1982. Is it a timely source for her topic?    :

·         Yes.

·         No.

  Question 6.

 One way to determine whether a website is current is to examine the URL. :

·         True

·         False

Question 7.

Wikipedia is a good source to use for :

·         developing background information on a topic that will not necessarily be cited or quoted in a paper.

·         hunting down sources in its references section that may prove to be good sources for an essay.

·         looking up the definition of a term or explanation of an event to understand what a source is saying.

·         all of the above.

Question 8.

 Adrian is writing a paper on Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson definition of democracy. He found a source that was written in 1892 by a scholar on Jefferson. Does this source meet the timeliness requirement for his topic?

·         Yes.

·         No

 Question 9. :

Jordon writes an essay about the upcoming presidential election. He decides to use a source that discusses one of the presidential candidates. The source focuses mostly on discussing the candidate s position and why the writer supports those positions. The information in this source is an example of which of the following?

·         Fact

·         Opinion

·         Propaganda

·         None of the above

Question 10.

Mariann has accessed a video about Social Security  future via her school library databases. As she watches the video, she pays attention to the production value, noting that the video seems to be shot well, the sound quality is very good, and the dialogue is well constructed. By looking at such parts of the video, Mariann is evaluating this multimedia according to which CRAAP principle?

·         Currency

·         Authority

·         Accuracy

·         Purpose/Bias