Research Ethics

Question 1

Ethical concerns when conducting research

Answer 1

• sharing info with the participants
• relationships
• issue of anonymity
  -ownership of data
• sensitive data
  Reacting to sensitive info.
  -certain data collection methods
  Deprive participants of their normal behavior.
  Handling data
  Testing

Question 2

Research ethics

Answer 2

Depends on the moral character of the researcher
American education research association 2002
- researcher should know fabricate or misinterpret
-should know use their professional roles for fraudulent purposes
-refrain from selectively communicating findings.

• researcher should not cause any mental or physical harm to the participants
• researcher should attempt to benefit the participants in someway.
• researcher should protect the participants right to anonymity, right to privacy, right to withdraw as they wish,
• if the identity is known to the researcher, the researcher should maintain confidentiality.
  ❌dont promise a confidentiality that cant be achieved
  🫡respect it
  🌚make sure the researcher is identifiable and traceable
• obtaining consent forms
  Problems : what to include without revealing what should not about the study.
  : how the consent should be given
  What to include in a consent form
• aims and purposes
• risks and consequences of the research
  -what the participants had to do
• confidentiality
  -right to withdraw from the study

Consent form
Active - participants grating consent by buying.
Passive: Not opting out or objecting to the stufy