In-te-grity
Upholding honesty, accuracy, and responsibility in all research practices.
What is Integrity?
Using someone else’s words, ideas, or data without proper citation
What is plagiarism?
Principles guiding right and wrong conduct, ensuring respect and fairness.
What are ethics in research?
Your classmate copies data from a previous project without citation. What’s wrong?
It’s plagiarism and misrepresents authorship.
Doing research ethically, responsibly, and according to established standards.
What is “responsible code of conduct” ?
Give an example of how you can practice integrity using data
Ex. Record data accurately without rounding or adjusting values to make them look “neater.”
Reusing your own previous work without acknowledgment or permission.
What is self-plagiarism
Getting informed consent before interviews or observations.
What is an example of an ethical decision in fieldwork?
You forget to cite a source you paraphrased. What type of plagiarism is this?
Unintentional or careless plagiarism.
How can collaboration uphold integrity?
By giving credit, sharing data honestly, and communicating clearly.
Honesty, transparency, and accountability?
What are the 3 core values of integrity in research?
True or False: Changing a few words in a sentence avoids plagiarism.
False- ideas must be cited
Why are ethics important in community-based research?
They protect participants and ensure research benefits the community.
A professor pressures a student to publish early data. What ethical concern is this?
Research misconduct and coercion.
What should you do if you witness unethical behavior in research?
Report it to a mentor, supervisor, or integrity office.
Why is integrity essential for research credibility?
It ensures findings are trustworthy and reproducible.
Name two ways to prevent plagiarism
Paraphrase correctly, cite all sources, use plagiarism checkers, or keep good research notes.
Use culturally appropriate methods and language; avoid misrepresentation.
What is one way to show respect for participants’ cultural values?
You are offered authorship on a paper you didn’t work on. What’s the ethical choice?
Decline and ensure credit goes to those who contributed.
Create one “Golden Rule” for research integrity.
Ex. “Treat all data and people with respect.”
What’s the difference between ethics and integrity?
Ethics are moral principles; integrity is the consistent practice of those principles in research.
Forgetting quotation marks or missing a citation for a paraphrase.
What is accidental plagiarism?
How are research and ethics interconnected?
Ethical decisions shape the credibility, safety, and impact of all research outcome
A researcher manipulates results to fit a hypothesis. Which integrity value is violated?
Honesty and transparency
What office or committee oversees ethics in human research?
the Institutional Review Board