Plagiarism
This type of plagiarism occurs when a student directly copies text from a source without providing any citation.
What is Direct Plagiarism?
A researcher who has access to private identifiable data, is tempted to use that data for personal gain without permission from the participants. This would violate...
Confidentiality
A mentor accepts a large grant from a company whose products are being studied in the research. This presents a potential issue known as what?
What is a Conflict of Interest?
When analyzing data, researchers should always do what to ensure the accuracy and credibility of their results?
What is Transparency?
A student fails to cite sources OR paraphrases incorrectly, not realizing they are committing plagiarism.
What is Accidental Plagiarism?
A research study involves human participants, participants agree to be a part of the study but are unaware of the general content of the study (which contains several questions about sensitive content). This action violates...
Informed Consent
A mentor asks their mentee to submit a paper they’ve mostly written themselves, with the mentee only contributing minimal work. This violates what aspect of mentoring?
What is Academic Integrity?
A researcher realizes that outliers in their data might influence the results significantly. They should...
What is Report the Outliers and explain their potential impact on the results?
If a student were to reuse their own previous work for a new assignment without proper citation or permission.
What is Self-Plagiarism?
A researcher analyzes the results from a recent study they've been conducting. In primary analyses they found null effects (results were not significant). They then removed some pieces of data and were able to establish significance. This is an example of ...
Data Falsification
When a researcher has a personal financial interest in the outcome of the research, they are required to do this with that information.
What is disclose/ disclosure?
A researchers own perceptions of how the results should appear unknowingly lead them to skew their interpretations of said results. What form of breach does this represent?
What is Confirmation Bias?
Taking sections from multiple sources and stitching them together into a new piece of work without crediting the original authors.
What is Patchwork Plagiarism?
A study that lasted for 40 years in which black men participated in a study on "bad blood." Participants were told they were being treated for said ailments in exchange for meals, medical exams, and burial insurance. However, treatment for the ailment became available during the study and participants were not only not informed but did not receive the treatment. This led to the unnecessary infections and death of 128 participants.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
A student received no prior training after joining a lab that works with human participants. In order to be able to work with participants in any study needing IRB approval they must first...
Complete the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)
A large scale issue in which scientists and researchers have had difficulty replicating the results of previously published studies or getting the same significance of results reported from previous studies.
What is the Replication Crisis?