Ethical

Consideration to
Research
Group- 6
 What is Ethics?
• Rules of behavior based on ideas
about what is morally good and bad.
• It is concerned with a set of social and
moral principles that guide research.

Ethics in research provides rules that

specify and appropriate and
inappropriate behavior in the conduct
of research and application of
findings.
“All researchers has
been challenged to
meet ethical principles
and underlie the
research endeavour.”
 Components of Ethics in Research Example

- It is because of the very

purpose of Science, which
Fraud &
A. TRUTHFULNESS is searching for answers Misconduct
to questions, honesty is
of utmost importance.

- Ethics in research also

Asking
B. COURTESY includes courtesy in permission
dealing with respondents.

- Related to showing
respect for the
Respect for
C. RESPECT FOR respondents is the ethical
Human
HUMAN RIGHTS implications of eliciting Dignity
information from
respondents.
Components of Ethics
in Research

A TRUTHFUL NESS
“ PILTDOWN MAN”
 FRAUD & MISCONDUCT in research
consists of the following deviations from
TRUTHFULNESS (King, 2001)
1. Fabricating data.
2. Describing results of experiments that were
never performed.
3. Listing clinical observations of test subjects who do not
exist.
4. Changing or falsifying existing data in order to
achieve some predetermined goal.
5. Data trimming.

6. Data cooking.
7. Plagiarism, knowingly stealing someone else’s
published work and presenting it without attribution
to source.
Components of Ethics in
Research

B. COURTESY
The researcher must get a
permission:
- from the school head if he
needs to get data from
students.
- from the president of the
farmers’ organization if the
respondents are farmers.
 Components of Ethics in
Research

C. RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Respect for Human Dignity
1. Protection of life of the participants
2. Protection of participants from harm and
loss of dignity
3. Seeking informed consent of participants
4. Avoid deception
5. Observing confidentiality where it is due.
6. Observing the right of the participants
to pull out anytime if they so wish.
7. Just compensation or some form of
reciprocity where necessary as well
as sharing of research result.
Thank
You!