Protect your Integrity, Professional Obligation, Scientific Accountability, Scholarly Responsibility, Ethical Responsibility, and Social Responsibility by adhering to ethical behavior with basic principles of human rights at the forefront.
Medical research as always held a prominent position in the realm of the ethics of research involving human participants, with respect to the development of terminologies, framework, procedures, and institution of federal policies. Educational research in particular has followed this outline with the development of planning, evaluating, and conducting research involving human participants. Research in general comes with a number of imperative elements to consider before conducting as well as presenting a host of ethical requirements and possible challenges to acknowledge beforehand. It's vital to remain authentic to your professional obligation, scientific accountability, and scholarly responsibility when engaging in research.
In locating an ethics statement within the current discipline, which is Educational Research & Evaluation, American Educational Research Association (AERA) has emplaced a code of ethical standards for an educational researcher's work-related conduct, social and professional responsibility, principals, and values to maintain when conducting research with human participants.
AERA Professional Ethics
AERA Code of Research Ethics
"The Code of Ethics of the American Educational Research Association was approved by the AERA Council in February 2011.The Code sets forth the ethical principles and standards that govern the professional work of education researchers. The Code of Ethics replaces the Ethical Standards, which were adopted in 1992 and have been only minimally modified since that time. The current Code is intended to provide guidance that informs and is helpful to education researchers in their research, teaching, service, and related professional work. The Code is intended to provide both the principles and the rules to cover professional situations encountered by education researchers. It has as its primary goal the welfare and protection of the individuals and groups with whom education researchers work."
The AERA code of ethics statement is providing educational researchers with ethical standards and principles to value in which are set forth as an enforceable decree for conducting as educational researchist and professional roles. Countless ethical dilemmas and situations occur regularly in educational research as well as ethical requirements to conduct research with human participants (i.g. must meet professional, institutional and federal standards for conducting research with human participants, authorship issues, participant privacy and welfare of participant compromised, just to name a few) and AERA provides a set of ethical standards for an educational researcher to adhere, while committing to a lifelong effort to act ethically and encourage ethical behavior with others as well as ourselves.
Reflection
When I reflect on research in a board sense, code of ethics like AERA, IRB, APA, and NIH training to name a few are emplaced to permit researchers the ability to remain salient in ethical issues, as well as avoid and resolve ethical impasses, while remaining authentic to your ethical obligations and social and professional responsibilities.
As a researcher, keep in mind, what ethical resources are available should you be presented with an ethical situation?
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world." - Albert Camus
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