Educational Research in an Era of Ethics in Scientific Research

Abstract

Promoting responsible conduct in human and animal research has been at the core of the applied research ethics movement. The functioning of these committees focuses on training in the ethics of scientific research, certifying researchers on ethics, and providing guidelines for inserting ethics in research and approval procedures to ensure ethics when conducting scientific research. Educational research revolves around student learning, how students are taught, and how educational institutions are managed. In educational research, the positioning among researchers and educators is that ethics in educational research must be understood in the cultural and institutional context of individuals and their communities. The evaluation of multiple institutional ethics committees is also considered bureaucratic when the study is conducted by investigators from different institutions or involves entering several institutions. The concept of ethics differs from the vision of biomedical ethics currently applied to the evaluation of studies submitted for approval by institutional ethics committees.