Chapter 15: Research and Publications
1. It is ethically questionable for a university professor to
a. conduct a research project with a student.
b. supervise the research activities of a student.
c. require a student to participate in a research project.
d. co-present with a student at a professional conference.
e. write a letter of recommendation for a job for a student with whom he or she has
conducted a research study.
2. When children are participants in a research study
a. consent is needed from their parents only.
b. there is no need to obtain informed consent from the children because they are unable
to give legal consent.
c. even though parental consent is legally sufficient, the assent of the children should be
obtained as well.
d. obtaining the consent of children would be unwise because it would alert children that
they are being studied and they would then behave differently.
e. informed consent is not required because children are too young to understand.
3. Before students agree to serve as research assistants, counselor educators should discuss
and provide
a. assurance that those who decline to participate will not be penalized.
b. a clarification of expectations regarding who will do which parts of the work.
c. an agreement regarding the type of acknowledgment students will receive when the
research is published.
d. a time-line to complete the various tasks.
e. all of the above.
4. Concealing from individuals that they are being studied and deceiving individuals with
false information during a study
a. are forbidden by codes of ethics.
b. are sensitive areas and researchers must take care to insure that participants are not
harmed when such activities take place.
c. require that participants be paid.
d. could be used as a basis to revoke a counselor’s license.
e. are activities that would never be undertaken by professional researchers because
studies can always be completed without resorting to such negative tactics.
5. Research participants
a. must be paid if their identities will be disclosed by the researcher.
b. must sign a document in front of a notary if they agree to waive their privacy.
c. generally are not guaranteed privacy.
d. have a right to expect to have their confidentialityprotected.
e. may never agree to have their name disclosed by a researcher.
6. The requirement that universities establish committees to review research proposals to
ensure that human participants are protected is
a. a state law in all states.
b. required by the U.S. Constitution.
c. voluntarily adhered to throughout the United States.
d. a federal law that carries with it the penalty of loss of federal funds if violated.
e. a federal law that makes it a crime to do otherwise.
7. The practice of evaluating professors for tenure, promotion, and merit pay increases is
based largely on their records of
a. grants brought into the university.
b. teaching effectiveness.
c. presenting at national conferences.
d. getting along well with other professors.
e. scholarly publications.
8. University committees that review research proposals to ensure that human participants are
protected are called
a. bursars.
b. adjunct committees
c. institutional review boards.
d. promotion and tenure committees.
e. research councils.
9. In regard to giving credit to contributors to research projects in published reports
a. a footnote is sufficient.
b. every person who contributed must be listed as a co-author.
c. the major professor of a dissertation study must be listed as first author.
d. appropriate credit must be given, but there are no firm rules.
e. individuals who were paid to assist do not have to be given any credit.
10. Most written materials are legally protected from the time they are created until _____
years after the author’s death.
a. 5
b. 50
c. 200
d. 300
e. 500
11. Plagiarism
a. is always just cause for expelling a student from a counselor training program
b. is summarizing a passage from another author’s work without using quotation marks
and giving the
source and page number where the passage was found
c. is difficult for professors to detect
d. is claiming the words and ideas of someone else as one’s own
e. cannot be committed when the source of an idea is the Internet
12. Students do NOT have to cite the source for information when the information
a. is considered common knowledge
b. is paraphrased rather than directly quoted
c. was retrieved from a source on the Internet
d. they are quoting from a text their professor has authord
e. they are quoting from the text used in the course for which they are writing the
assigned paper
13.Researchers are ethically obligated to
a. compensate the participants in their research, either monetarily or by an
acknowledgment
b. attempt to publish their results
c. offer feedback to the participants in the study
d. enlist the help of a statistician to interpret the results
e. destroy all records that might identify participants as soon as the study is completed
14. When a student and a professor co-author an article for publication in a professional journal
a. the student should be listed as the second author, after the professor
b. the student and professor should decide on the order of authorship credit before they
begin working on the project
c. the professor should do most of the work because the professor has more experience
with publishing
d. the professor should be listed as the first author, with the student second
e. the one who contributed the most to producing the article should the first-listed author
15.Students can ensure that they do not commit plagiarism by
a. using exact quotes from their sources rather than paraphrasing
b. using a website such as turnitincom to check their work before submitting it to the
professor
c. putting everything into their own words so they don’t have to cite sources
d. rearranging the order of the words in a sentence written by a source that is being used
e. using only sources that anyone can find on the Internet
Chapter Fifteen