Taiwan Graduate Students’ General Understanding and Misunderstanding of Responsible Conduct of Research

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Abstract

This study aims to investigate Taiwan graduate students’ general (mis)understanding of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). A total of 580 graduate students responded to the Responsible Conduct of Research Reasoning Test (RCRRT). The results revealed that students did not have sufficient knowledge to reason why a particular research (mis)conduct was doable or not. The t-test results showed the female, humanity/social science-majors, doctoral, and with RCR-related trainings students outperformed others. Besides, the top five (mis)conduct types that the students judged less critically were copyright, plagiarism of academic writing, mentor and trainee responsibilities, plagiarism of research idea, and the responsibility of authorship. Students also tended to perform less intuitive and critical judgments on the misconducts of duplicate and piecemeal publications.

Authors

• Sophia Jui-An Pan, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

• Chien Chou, National Chiao Tung University