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Chapter 7

Chapter 7 . Protect. Questioning the Ethics of Your Study. Deliberate about the ethical concerns your study may pose. Discuss any ethical concerns you might have with critical friends, professors, school administrators, and review committees. Rework your research design as necessary.

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Chapter 7

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  1. Chapter 7 Protect

  2. Questioning the Ethics of Your Study • Deliberate about the ethical concerns your study may pose. • Discuss any ethical concerns you might have with critical friends, professors, school administrators, and review committees. • Rework your research design as necessary. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  3. School Division Review • Before conducting any research, you must acquire the necessary permission from your school and district leadership. • If you are also affiliated with a university, then you will need to check with the university Institutional Review Board (IRB) as well. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  4. Standards of Research Ethics • Ethical Responsibility to Know • Develop an awareness of your ethical responsibility about how to gain information with regard to human dignity, individuals’ lives, and their psychological and physical well-being. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  5. Standards of Research Ethics • Ethical Responsibility to Protect and Respect • One of the key concepts of research ethics is protection. • Some would even argue that in teacher research the “researchers are obligated to respect ‘research subjects,’ and not just protect them” (Lee & van den Berg, 2003, p. 99). Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  6. Standards of Research Ethics • Role of Professional Organizations • Professional organizations have developed codes, standards, dispositions, and principles of research ethics. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  7. Standards of Research Ethics • Four key research ethics guidelines established by scholarly associations include: • 1. Informed consent • 2. Deception • 3. Privacy and confidentiality • 4. Accuracy (Christians, 2000) Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  8. Standards of Research Ethics • Informed Consent • Let your students, their families, and your school administration know that you are conducting classroom research in order to improve your teaching practice and students’ learning. • Gain approval for your research. • Explain: • (a) the purpose of your research • (b) what their participation will involve • (c) that their involvement is confidential and voluntary • (d) that you will not penalize them for not participating. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  9. Standards of Research Ethics • Deception • Informing your students and their families about their participation in your research is the first step in creating an honest relationship with them. • It is not ethical to deceive them and tell them the research is about something else to gain information from them. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  10. Standards of Research Ethics • Privacy and Confidentiality • You have the responsibility to protect your participants’ identities and check that your data do not include any identifiable information. • Anonymous is not equal to confidentiality. It means that identities will not be known to you as a researcher. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  11. Standards of Research Ethics • Accuracy • Your ethical role as a teacher researcher demands your accurate designing, noticing, collecting, reporting, analyzing, and reporting of data and results without fabrications, omissions, or alterations. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  12. Institutional Review Boards • By 1974 the federal government required that an institutional review board (IRB) be established for any organization that receives federal funding for research involving human subjects for review of the proposed research. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

  13. Class Activity The Ethical Self-Study Teacher Researcher • Hold a thorough discussion about the ethics of your self-study proposal using Critical Friend Inquiry 7.1. Self-Study Teacher Research: Improving Your Practice Through Collaborative Inquiry Chapter 7 Protect

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