Research skills

Question 1

What steps did you employ during this Investigation to practice ethical scholarship when conducting your research and completing assigned tasks? (3) (4)

Answer 1

when referencing source material by:

• honest about the source of information used
• acknowledging the words and ideas of others
• listing all the sources used

when conducting research:

• respecting each person’s right to make an informed decision
• respecting each person’s right to confidentiality or anonymity
• respecting cultural sensitives
• presenting the results honestly by avoiding bias and acknowledging the limitations of the data.

Question 2

What are 3 ethical scholarship practices to do when referencing source material?

Answer 2

• honest about the source of information used
• acknowledging the words and ideas of others
• listing all the sources used

Question 3

What are 4 ethical scholarship practices to do when conducting research?

Answer 3

• respecting each person’s right to make an informed decision
• respecting each person’s right to confidentiality or anonymity
• respecting cultural sensitives
• presenting the results honestly by avoiding bias and acknowledging the limitations/falsification of the data

Question 4

Contestable nature

Answer 4

Scrutiny
Bias
Views
Challenging

Question 5

Usefulness

Answer 5

Purpose
Audience
Inform
Motive
Context
Tone

Question 6

Reliability

Answer 6

Represent
Author
Contradictory/consistency

Question 7

How do you successfully conduct an accurate exploration of a certain topic? (7)

Answer 7

• make a research question
• how they will gain the information
• survey
• facts from information already out there (census from the government or the catechism, vatican website making it reliable from authentic, authoritative data)
• Qualitative or Quantitative data
• ethics
• how they will report it