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As researchers we have a responsibility not just to inform participants about our research and its possible consequences, but to have confidence that participants are giving informed consent. So...
Continue readingA consistent refrain of colleagues is that research ethics committees seem to be committed to stopping research. Nothing could be further from the truth. The contemporary research ethics committee...
Continue readingEsta cuarta edición de la Guía Ética para la Investigación Educativa de BERA, extensamente revisada, ampliada y actualizada, ha sido concebida para apoyar a los investigadores en el campo...
Microgenetic analysis is a Vygotskyan educational research method that supports uncovering student sense-making activity during collaborative learning. Investigating learning using microgenetic...
Continue readingWhen we gather survey data about human perceptions and attitudes, do we elicit answers to what we really ask? How far can self-administered questionnaires (Schwarz, 1999), with no interviewer...
Continue readingOver the past decade, self-published polemic on education topics has become widely disseminated through a burgeoning culture of social media, and has increasingly challenged the products of...
Focussing on an early-career researcher embarking on her first academic role, this second entry in BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, this case study discusses key ethical...
This post introduces the challenges associated with gaining ethical review board approval, and securing the informed consent and assent of participant families, in educational research. It draws...
Continue reading'You don’t understand us or the subject!’ This is a frequent cry heard by me, as a university research ethics chair, from educational researchers trying to get ethics approval for research...
Continue readingBERA’s Research Ethics Case Studies series, edited by Jodie Pennacchia, presents illustrative case studies designed to complement BERA’s Ethical Guidelines, which these case studies are...
While informed consent is important, obtaining written consent from participants can be problematic.
Continue readingResearchers need to begin by examining their theories to enable them to control their research, and avoid the risk of being misled by unexamined beliefs.
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