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Nicholas Norman Adams – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
The global scale of COVID-19 has constrained academics from conducting much person-facing research. Reactively, trend is increasing for digital-based methodologies capturing already existing online data. Scholars often 'scrape' user-postings from internet forums using coding algorithms and text capture tools, before analysing data, drawing…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Trends, Informed Consent, COVID-19
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Jennifer Jackson – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
While digital tools are often recommended for researchers, there is a lack of evidence around effective social media strategies among researchers to optimise participant recruitment and data collection. However, an 'add Facebook and stir' approach could create extra burden for participants or foil researchers' efforts. Participant recruitment…
Descriptors: Social Media, Researchers, Recruitment, Data Collection
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Janine Arantes – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
As a result of the growing commercial marketplace for teachers' digital data, a new organization that includes educational data brokers has evolved. Educational data brokerage is relatively intangible due to the ease of de-identified data being collected and sold via educational technology. There is an urgent need to expose how the brokerage of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Technology, Commercialization, Privacy
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Mathilde Léon; Shoba S. Meera; Anne-Caroline Fiévet; Alejandrina Cristia – Research Ethics, 2024
The last decade has seen a rise in big data approaches, including in the humanities, whereby large quantities of data are collected and analysed. In this paper, we discuss long-form audio recordings that result from individuals wearing a recording device for many hours. Linguists, psychologists and anthropologists can use them, for example, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Data Collection, Audio Equipment
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Daniels, Benjamin; Boffa, Jody; Kwan, Ada; Moyo, Sizulu – Research Ethics, 2023
Simulated standardized patients (SPs) are trained individuals who pose incognito as people seeking treatment in a health care setting. With the method's increasing use and popularity, we propose some standards to adapt the method to contextual considerations of feasibility, and we discuss current issues with the SP method and the experience of…
Descriptors: Deception, Informed Consent, Simulation, Patients
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Syed, Hassan; Syed, Ghazal Kazim – Research in Education, 2021
This paper reports on the challenges faced by two researchers during data collection and translation of data and analysis in two public sector universities in Pakistan. Data collection from each institute involved different procedures and a different set of issues, including negotiating access with gatekeepers and participants, dealing with…
Descriptors: Novices, Researchers, Qualitative Research, Research Administration
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Charles Melvin Ess; Ylva Hård af Segerstad – New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction, 2019
We briefly review the emergence of internet research ethics (IRE) since 2000 across three stages, showing how the last, IRE 3.0, focuses on ethical challenges and issues evoked by Big Data. We explore specific examples of IRE 3.0 as occasioned by requirements for informed consent -- including Big Data analyses of a closed Facebook group -- as…
Descriptors: Ethics, Barriers, Internet, Research Methodology
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Willis, Roxana – Research Ethics, 2019
Informed consent may be unobtainable in online contexts. This article examines the difficulties of obtaining informed consent online through a Facebook case study. It is proposed that there are at least two ways informed consent could be waived in research: first, if the data are public, and second, if the data are textual. Accordingly, the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Science Research, Social Media, Informed Consent
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West, Deborah; Luzeckyj, Ann; Toohey, Danny; Vanderlelie, Jessica; Searle, Bill – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Increasingly learning analytics (LA) has begun utilising staff- and student-facing dashboards capturing visualisations to present data to support student success and improve learning and teaching. The use of LA is complex, multifaceted and raises many issues for consideration, including ethical and legal challenges, competing stakeholder views and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Administration, Ethics, Student Attitudes
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Maglio, Fabiana; Pherali, Tejendra – Research Ethics, 2020
This paper aims to reflect upon ethical dilemmas arising from educational research in humanitarian contexts, particularly when involving children. In recognition of the paucity of knowledge on how to define ethics in humanitarian research, we review the existing body of literature that explores ethical responsibilities towards children involved in…
Descriptors: Ethics, Children, Educational Research, Participatory Research
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Power, Kerry – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
When conceptualising knowledge gained from tapping into an internet data pool, one may question many things which can include the role of the researcher and the researched, privacy and ethics, intention, authenticity and the vastness of scope. The researcher, regardless of research intention including moral or ethical positions, must acknowledge…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Problems, Social Media, Researchers
Boninger, Faith; Molnar, Alex – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2016
Digital technologies used by marketers continue to evolve. Sophisticated and personalized, they help ensure that today's children and adolescents are constantly connected and available to advertisers wherever they may roam. Moreover, because digital technologies enable extensive personalization, they amplify opportunities for marketers to take…
Descriptors: Privacy, Information Security, Student Records, Data Collection
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Young, Michael; Denny, George; Donnelly, Joseph – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: Those involved in school health education programs generally believe that health-education programs can play an important role in helping young people make positive health decisions. Thus, it is to document the effects of such programs through rigorous evaluations published in peer-reviewed journals. Methods: This paper helps the…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Programs, Program Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation