Sacred Heart Academy

Loon, Bohol
First Monthly Test in Media and Information Literacy Date: July 2, 2018

Score: _________
Name: _______________________________________Yr. and Section: ______________________
I. Directions. Identify the terms suggested on each item below. Write your answer on the space provided.
______________ 1. It is one of those everyday activities that are intertwined with all human life so completely that we
sometimes overlook its pervasiveness, importance, and complexity.”
______________ 2. Communication is from the Latin term ______________, which means “to share” or “to divide out.”
______________ 3. It may also be thought to origin from another Latin word ____________, which roughly means
“working together.”
______________ 4. Something we use when we want to communicate with people indirectly, rather than in person or
by face to face contact.
______________ 5. It refers to the nature of message, whether it is relayed using text, audio, video, graphics, animation,
or a combination of any of these things.
______________ 6. It is the way data are arranged.
______________ 7. It is a “broad term that can cover data, knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction,
signals, or symbols.”
______________ 8. It is the “ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, and compute using printed
and written materials associated with varying contexts.
______________ 9. The ability to read, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication in a variety of media forms, e.g.
Television, print, radio, computers, etc.
______________ 10. It refers to the ability to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, use, and
communicate information in its various formats.
______________ 11. This is the ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate,
use, and create information.
______________ 12. It provides channels through which representations and images of the word can be communicated
indirectly.

For numbers 13-15 identify the source by writing on the space provided the different definitions of media

______________ 13. Refers to the combination of physical objects used to communicate or mass communication
through physical objects such as radio, television, computers, or films, etc
______________ 14. Carries a certain degree of intellectual baggage or currency with it.
______________ 15. Something we use when we want to communicate with people indirectly, rather than in person or
by face to face contact

Short Response Criteria:

II. Short Response and Enumeration. Substance/content – 7
Organization - 3
1. In two to three sentences, expound these statements:
 “Being literate means empowering you to be able to affect change to yourself and to others.” (10 points)
 “Media and information are much like road traffic – you have to strategize and look for a more efficient route to
take to get to where you want to go.” (10 points)
2. How does being media and information literate helpful in your future? (10 points)
3. Enumerate the categories of media: modality, format, ways of transmitting, and mass media form (15 points)
4. Enumerate the stages of the typology of media literacy. (8 points)