A topic in research methodology
All research has to be informed by a strong sense of ethics.
Research ethics is important in planning and carrying-out research, and also when writing-up.
Issues that become important when writing-up research include:
- Protecting identity. Normally keeping the identity of participants anonymous, and considering when this may not be desirable
- Authorship – expectations about who should be named as an author of academic work – (for example, there are circumstances where it is expected that a supervisor should be named as an author of a student’s research paper, and circumstances where that would not be appropriate).
- Multiple publication – principles concerning reporting the same work more than once in research journals and other outputs.
My introduction to educational research:
Taber, K. S. (2013). Classroom-based Research and Evidence-based Practice: An introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
