Educational Research Methods
A site to support teaching and learning...
Ethical reporting of educational research
This is a personal site of Keith S. Taber to support teaching of educational research methods.
(Dr Keith Taber is Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.)
2016
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:
When participants should be kept anonymous
and when this is the desirable: Protecting identity
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.
Taber, K. S. (2013). Classroom-based Research and Evidence-based Practice: An introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
