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Assessment
End of section 4 questions
- Which of the five San Code sections would you find hardest to assess from a manuscript alone?
- How would you distinguish a genuine, study specific consent statement from a generic one?
- If you suspected plagiarism in a manuscript, what would your very next action be?
Quiz for this section
Q11. Ubuntu is best understood in this course as operating across how many levels?
- a) One, captured fully by the phrase, I am because we are
- b) Five, including family, community, society, environment and spirituality
- c) Two, individual and collective
- d) Ubuntu has no defined levels
Correct answer: b
Q12. Which of these is not one of the five sections of the San Code of Research Ethics?
- a) Respect
- b) Honesty
- c) Confidentiality
- d) Care
Correct answer: c
Q13. What does AIEC currently offer?
- a) Full ethics approval only
- b) Ethics advice and ethics clearance
- c) No ethics services
- d) Legal representation for researchers
Correct answer: b
Q14. Which of the following is an example of research malpractice?
- a) Citing African orature as evidence
- b) Using a vernacular key term with an English translation
- c) Adding a person as a co-author who did not contribute significantly
- d) Reviewing a manuscript within the requested timeframe
Correct answer: c
Q15. When reviewing a SINCCD manuscript, what deserves particularly close attention in the ethics section?
- a) The word count
- b) Consent involving participants with communication needs, caregivers, or literacy considerations
- c) The number of co-authors
- d) The journal’s page fees
Correct answer: b