Ethical Dilemma

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Ethical Dilemma

• Week 4
• INTRO Dilemma http//onlineacademics.org/CA517/Et
  hics.htm4
• INPUT Read and discuss APA sections and other
  ethical issues, which were included as slides in
  the weekly PowerPoint Lectures (e.g., 4a.)
  http//onlineacademics.org/CA517/Lectures/

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Week 4  Watch your step!Unit 4a
March of the Penguins

• http//www.clubpenguinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/
  2008/10/mad-scientist.png

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Suggestions for the proposal

• Incorporate each weeks suggestions.
• The week 6 proposal will enable revised weekly
  assignment grades, where relevant.

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Double-space everything and indent paragraphs
using tabs.

• If you use five spaces to indent, when
  you use the replace function to remove extra
  spaces, you will cause a problem with your
  formatting.
• Avoid using an APA style program because it may
  introduce errors into your work.

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Be a scientist

• No opinions about anything. Not even
  interestingly. . . Just the facts from
  research articles you cite.
• Only one question, the research question.

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Avoid gender bias against researchers.

• No first names.
• No he or she references to authors.

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A few other items.

• Punctuation inside quotation marks.
• When you have a whole paragraph of information
  from one study, you can indicate the author
  (year) at the beginning. Then after you write
  all the information, you can put the page numbers
  or some other indicator at the end (pp. 356-370).

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Introduction

• This should be a brief overview to explain the
  problem. State your research question and how
  you will answer it.

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Final sweep

• When you finish, replace all extra spaces with
  the replace function.
• Remove extra lines and set double-space with the
  format and paragraph function.
• Add header from view function with your last
  name, topic, and page.

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Watch Your Step Sources Kerlinger Lee, Sumser,
APA.These wonderful pictures are from Microsoft
clip art, www.penguinscience.com, and
allposters.com.
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Ethics, Design, Prospectus
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Tread carefully to meetAPA Ethical Standards

• KNOW APA
• Discussion of ethical behaviors pp. 11-20 and
  compliance checklist p. 20.
• 8.04 Complying With Ethical, legal, and Policy
  Requirements, p. 231-236.
• Crediting Sources pp. 169-174.

Read and reread that information until you know
it by heart!
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Why Follow APA Exactly? US social scientific
values include the following

• Ownership of ideas.
• Advancement of knowledge based on truth.
• Compliance with ethical rules.
• Capstone experience is independent work and
  faculty must trust you.

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Examples of Extremely Serious Infractions

• 1. Plagiarism or falsification in a research
  course (CA 517).
• 2. Repeated dishonesty.
• 3. Dishonesty on a core assessment.
• 4. Submitting an assignment primarily written by
  someone else. 
• 5. Capstone course dishonesty.

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Lack of Ethics
Ethics

• The Tuskegee syphilis studies 1932-1972, the U.S.
  Public Health Service studied 399 black men. No
  intention of curing.
• Milgram electric shock studies used a form of
  deception. Sixty percent of the "teachers"
  obeyed orders to punish the learner to the very
  end of the 450-volt scale!
• Often cited as reasons why scientific research
  with humans and animals needs to be regulated.

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Fraud
                                                               

• is also an issue of concern because the work of
  individuals
• influences legislation and
• how people perceive themselves and others.

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Do NOT do research that

• Puts people at risk.
• Violates the norms of free informed consent.
• Uses public resources to private gains.
• Could seriously damage the environment.
• Is biased research.

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APA guidelines

• Minimal risk.
• Fairness, responsibility, and informed consent
  (adults).
• If the researcher can justify deception, there
  must be debriefing.
• Freedom from coercion.
• Protection of participants.
• Confidentiality.

                                                            
Continue with Unit 4b.