HP Professional Standards & Ethics 2

Question 1

An honors student discovers a classmate has submitted AI-generated text as their own writing in a research paper without disclosure. What is the most ethically appropriate first step?

Accepted Answer

Confront the classmate privately and encourage self-disclosure

Answer

Encouraging self-disclosure respects due process while upholding academic integrity standards.

Question 2

Which principle best describes the honors program expectation that students produce work reflecting their own intellectual effort?

Accepted Answer

Academic honesty

Answer

Academic honesty directly governs the requirement that submitted work authentically represents the student's own thinking.

Question 3

A professor offers an honors student extra credit in exchange for assisting with the professor's private consulting project. This situation most likely violates which standard?

Accepted Answer

Prohibition against conflicts of interest

Answer

Using a grade incentive to gain unpaid labor for personal benefit creates a conflict of interest between the professor's roles.

Question 4

Informed consent in academic research primarily ensures that participants:

Accepted Answer

Understand the study's purpose and can withdraw freely

Answer

Informed consent protects autonomy by ensuring participants know what they are agreeing to and can opt out without penalty.

Question 5

When an honors thesis advisor has co-authored prior work with the student's external reviewer, the best action is to:

Accepted Answer

Disclose the relationship to the honors committee and consider replacing the reviewer

Answer

Transparency and possible reviewer replacement safeguard the objectivity of the evaluation process.

(HP) Honors Program Practice Test

(HP) Honors Program Practice Test

HP Professional Standards & Ethics 2