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Research Responsibility Survey
 
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School type:  Baccalaureate College    Comprehensive University    Research University    Other
Job position:  Untenured Faculty member    Tenured Faculty Member    Administrator    Other
 
  1.  Does your college/university have an official policy or requirement for teaching research integrity to undergraduates?
    Yes     No    NA
  2.  Are you aware of federal definitions of scientific misconduct?
    Yes     No    NA
  3.  Are you aware that the federal government may issue a requirement for training in research integrity for all major participants in NIH grants?
    Yes     No    NA
  4.  Has your campus had incidents involving faculty ethics/research integrity in the past year?
    Yes     No    NA
  5.  Has your campus had incidents involving undergraduate ethics/research integrity in the past year?
    Yes     No    NA
  6.  What do you think can best be done to infuse students with an understanding of research integrity?
   
  7.  To what extent is research integrity a problem on your campus? (1 = not serious; 5 = very serious)
    1     2    3     4    5
  8.  To what extent do you think research integrity a national issue? (1= not serious; 5 = very serious)
    1     2    3     4    5
  9.  In your opinion, how serious a problem is each of the following with respect to undergraduate students? (rank 1-5, 1= not serious; 5 = very serious)
    Cheating in class
    Cheating on lab reports
    Plagiarism/misappropriation of data
    Falsification/fabrication of data
    Mistreatment of animals in research
    Misuse of the internet
    Other
  10.  Are you attending CUR 2002?
    Yes     No    NA
  11.  If yes to question 10, are you attending because of a specific interest in Research Responsibility?
    Yes     No    NA
 
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  12.  What is your academic discipline?
   
  13.  Do you teach a formal course in research responsibility/ethics/integrity?
    Yes     No    NA
  14.  Do you use mentoring of undergraduates in a research setting to teach research integrity?
    Yes     No    NA
  15.  Do you introduce research integrity issues in classroom and lab settings?
    Yes     No    NA
  16.  Have you witnessed research integrity incidents during your professional career?
    Yes     No    NA
    If so, at what level?
While an undergraduate
While a Graduate Student
While an untenured professor
While a tenured professor>
  17.  If you have witnessed cheating in classrooms/labs by undergraduates, who was more likely to cheat, in your estimation?
    Non-majors
Majors other than pre-professional students
Pre-professional students (e.g., pre-med; pre-law)
Don't have an opinion>
  18.  If your campus has had incidents involving student or faculty ethics or research integrity problems in the past year,
    Incident 1:
    (a) what was the issue?
Student cheating in class
Student cheating on lab reports
Student plagiarism
Faculty plagiarism
Faculty Falsification/fabrication of data
Student falsification/fabrication of data
Faculty misappropriation of credit on a scientific publication
Data ownership conflicts
Human subjects research issues
Mistreatment of animals in research
Other
    (b) How was the issue resolved?
    Informal discussion among parties concerned
Campus committee of peers
Administration involvement
Legal resolution
Other
    (c) Were you satisfied with the resolution?
    Yes     No    NA>
    If no, please explain.
     
    Incident 2:
    (a) what was the issue?
Student cheating in class
Student cheating on lab reports
Student plagiarism
Faculty plagiarism
Faculty Falsification/fabrication of data
Student falsification/fabrication of data
Faculty misappropriation of credit on a scientific publication
Data ownership conflicts
Human subjects research issues
Mistreatment of animals in research
Other
    (b) How was the issue resolved?
    Informal discussion among parties concerned
Campus committee of peers
Administration involvement
Legal resolution
Other
    (c) Were you satisfied with the resolution?
    Yes     No    NA
    If no, please explain.
     
    Incident 3:
    (a) what was the issue?
Student cheating in class
Student cheating on lab reports
Student plagiarism
Faculty plagiarism
Faculty Falsification/fabrication of data
Student falsification/fabrication of data
Faculty misappropriation of credit on a scientific publication
Data ownership conflicts
Human subjects research issues
Mistreatment of animals in research
Other
    (b) How was the issue resolved?
    Informal discussion among parties concerned
Campus committee of peers
Administration involvement
Legal resolution
Other
    (c) Were you satisfied with the resolution?
    Yes     No    NA
    If no, please explain.
     
      

 

 

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