Responsible Research Practices Quiz

Respect for Intellectual Property

• Proper acknowledgement should be given to all authors cited and sources used in research.
• Patents and copyrights should be recognized and respected.
• Credits should be given where credit is due.

Confidentiality

• Confidential communications or documents should be protected.
• Private information should be strictly kept between the researcher and the respondents.

Responsible Publication

• Studies should be done with the purpose of advancing research and scholarship, not to solely advance one's own career.
• Wasteful and duplicate publication should be avoided.

Responsible Mentoring

• Researchers should seek to educate, mentor, and advise students.

Respect for Colleagues

• All peers should be treated fairly and with respect.

Social Responsibility

• Researchers should strive to promote social good and prevent or mitigate social harm through research, public education, and advocacy.
• Socially responsible researchers should listen to communities that are the beneficiaries of their work without patronizing them.

Non-Discrimination

• A good research should not discriminate against colleagues or students on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or other factors not related to scientific competence and integrity.
• All those eligible to participate in a research should be allowed to do so.

Competence

• Professional competence and expertise should be maintained and improved with research.

Legality

• A researcher should know and obey relevant laws, and institutional and government policies.

Animal and Human Subject Protection

• Proper respect and care for animals should be shown when using them in research.
• Section 6 of the Animal Welfare Act of 1998 (RA 8485) prohibits the maltreatment or use of animals in research or experiments that are not expressly authorized by the Committee on Animal Welfare.
• Harms and risks to humans should be minimized while benefits should be maximized.
• Human dignity, autonomy, and privacy should be among the primary considerations of research.

Importance of Ethical Guidelines

• Ethical standards promote values that are essential to collaborative work, such as trust, fairness, and mutual respect.
• Ethical standards ensure that researchers are held accountable to the public.
• Ethical standards help build public support for research.
• People are more likely to fund research studies that promote a variety of important and moral social values, such as human rights, animal welfare, and health and safety.

Research Ethics Objectives

• Discuss the importance of ethics in research.
• Explain the ethical codes in the conduct of research.
• Define plagiarism and identify techniques to avoid it.

Research Ethics

• Ethics is a system of moral principles or rules that say what is and is not acceptable.

Honesty

• Honesty must be maintained in all communications (reporting data, results, and procedures).
• Data should never be fabricated, falsified, or misrepresented.

Objectivity

• Avoid biases in experimental designs, data analysis, interpretation, expert testimony, and other aspects of research.

Integrity

• Conduct research in a way that allows others to have trust and confidence in the methods used and the findings that result from it.
• Consistency of thoughts and action.
• Promises and agreements should be kept in good order and condition.
• Use honest and verifiable methods in proposing, forming, and evaluating research.
• Following commonly accepted professional codes or norms.
• Avoid ghostwriting or asking someone to write a research paper for you.

Carefulness

• Careless errors and negligence should be avoided (e.g. in data collection, research design, etc.).
• Your works and the works of others should be critically examined.

Openness

• Researchers should be open to criticism and new ideas.
• Research data, results, ideas, and resources should also be shared with the public.