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Charlie Winter; R. V. Gundur – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
The swift evolution of digital spaces challenges the established norms of ethical research policy. Ineffective ethical review diminishes researchers' ability to conduct cutting-edge and socially sensitive research, institutions' ability to engage at the forefront of technology, and the relationship between researcher and committee. In criminology…
Descriptors: Ethics, Program Validation, Social Sciences, Digital Literacy
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Bashir, Hilal; Bala, Ranjan – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The purpose of the study was to develop a scale measuring academic dishonesty of undergraduate students. The sample of the study constitutes nine hundred undergraduate students selected via random sampling technique. After receiving expert's opinions for the face and content validity of the scale, the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Ethics, Behavior Rating Scales, Undergraduate Students
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Travers, Jason C. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
Special education professionals are charged with using evidence-based practices, but various unproven, disproven, and pseudoscientific interventions continue to proliferate. Unproven and ineffective interventions emerge and are adopted for various reasons. Ineffective interventions are inevitably harmful and require professionals to adopt a…
Descriptors: Special Education, Evidence, Evidence Based Practice, Misconceptions
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Sclater, Niall – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
Ethical and legal objections to learning analytics are barriers to development of the field, thus potentially denying students the benefits of predictive analytics and adaptive learning. Jisc, a charitable organization that champions the use of digital technologies in UK education and research, has attempted to address this with the development of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Information Policy, Ethics, Standard Setting
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Hendricks, Michael; Bamberger, Michael – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Each year a great many evaluations are conducted of international development efforts around the world. These development evaluations study projects, programs, country-wide portfolios, policy reform efforts, and other topics of interest to funders, governments, program managers, and other involved stakeholders. Although some of these evaluations…
Descriptors: Program Development, Economic Development, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
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Cook, Karen S.; Yamagishi, Toshio – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2008
A debate is emerging concerning the use of deception in social science research (especially when it employs experimental methods), driven primarily by the relatively recent move by many economists into experimental work. These economists generally argue that deception should be banned. Deception includes a variety of practices in social science…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Psychologists, Economics, Professional Occupations
Fischer, Karin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Discussions of access and ethics dominated as the Forum on Education Abroad convened its annual meeting this month. During a session on the ethics of pricing study-abroad programs, overseas-study directors said they felt increased pressure to account for their costs, even as the declining value of the dollar drives up expenses. The price tag is…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Program Validation, Foreign Countries, Ethics
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Boser, Susan – Qualitative Inquiry, 2007
Participatory research operates in a complex, dynamic social milieu and seeks to share the power inherent in knowledge generation with community partners. Institutional review boards (IRBs), however, typically operate from a framework that assumes asymmetrical power relations, hierarchically structured. This article argues that these differing…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Ethics, Power Structure, Vertical Organization
Stainback, Susan; Stainback, William – 1988
In this book, which applies the state of the art in qualitative research to special education, qualitative research is used as a generic term for investigative methodologies described variously as ethnographic, naturalistic, anthropological, field research, or participant-observer research. Chapter 1 introduces and defines qualitative research and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education