CHAPTER TEST IN RESEARCH 1

A. True or False. Write the word YES if the sentence is correct, NO, if it is incorrect.

_________ 1. Research promotes cost-effectiveness through documentation.

_________ 2. Researchers must avoid listening to another researcher to have an objective point of view of his or her study.
_________ 3. The steps in conducting a research have no particular pattern.
_________ 4. The research problem describes how the study will fill the “knowledge gap”.
_________ 5. The microsystems in research refers to the chapters organized in a logical manner.
_________ 6. Plagiarism constitutes claiming another person’s idea or intellectual property as one’s own.
_________ 7. The researcher could use anyone as a respondent even without consent.
_________ 8. A researcher has the right to give personal information about the participants to authorities who ask for it.
_________ 9. Biases should be avoided in all aspects of research.
_________ 10. Ethics ensures the accountability of the researchers to the public.

B. Identify which ethical code is described in the following. Choose the answer from the keywords inside the parenthesis.
11. All the data to be reported should include all facts with accuracy. (honesty, objectivity, competence, care)
12. Whatever agreed upon with the participants must be actualized. (integrity, legality, social responsibility, responsible publication)
13. The researchers should accept all comments and give considerations.
(openness, non-discrimination, responsible mentoring, integrity)
14. When a paper is already submitted to a publication, no submission to another should be done.
(objectivity, legality, care, responsible publication)
15. The researcher should be fully equipped with research skills when conducting the study.
(confidentiality, competence, legality, openness)
16. An experienced researcher should impart knowledge to his or her students.
(responsible publication, non-discrimination, responsible mentoring)
17. The researcher should ensure that the participants will not be harmfully affected by the research and its results.
(care, animal care, openness, respect for colleagues, social responsibility)
18. Any participant to any research activity must not be forced to take part in the study.
(voluntary participation, informed consent, risk of harm)
19. Data should never be fabricated, falsified or misinterpreted. (integrity, honesty, objectivity, competence)
20. Proper acknowledgment should be given to all authors cited and sources used in the research.
(social responsibility, human subject protection, respect for intellectual property, responsible publication)

C. Put a √ if the action done by the researcher does not involve plagiarism. Put an X if it describes a case of plagiarism.
________ 21. Alexander puts his name on a quotation of Shakespeare.
________ 22. After reading a selection, Christine wrote the contents of the selection and cited the author.
________ 23. The name of the author is Ramoso, Gabriel but the in the reference of Aaron he wrote Ramoso, Gabrielle.
________ 24. In Athena’s assignment, she carefully expressed the ideas of the author and wrote the author’s name.
________ 25. Because of lack of time, Pauline omitted some of the important details from a source of her thesis.
________ 26. Because they lack respondents, members of Group A answered their own survey.
________ 27. To submit a well-written speech, Jody copied a portion of a speech posted in the Facebook page of a senator.
________ 28. In his term paper, Luis paraphrased and summarized some of the information taken from his sources.
________ 29. Catherine provided a bibliography to enumerate the books and authors she used in her research.
________ 30. Because he is in a hurry, Mike left the results of his interview in the bus, so he wrote another one on his own before he
went to meet his group.