According to Bachman & Schutt (2014):
Research should expose participants to no more than minimal risk of personal harm, researchers should fully disclose the purposes of their research, participation in research should be voluntary, and therefore subjects must give their informed consent to participate in the research, and confidentiality must be maintained for individual research participants unless it is voluntarily and explicitly waived. (p. 60)
Although Dr. Coswalt protects the research participants from no more than a minimal risk of personal harm, the research scenario still violates three of these principles. Dr. Coswalt has failed to fully disclose the purpose of her research to the participants and their guardians. Dr. Coswalt and the participating schools mistakenly believed that the students and guardians should not be informed of the study, so that students would not change their behavior, a term known as the “Hawthorne effect” (Bachman & Schutt, 2014, p. 192). I would recommend that Dr. Coswalt create an informational brochure explaining her reasons for conducting research and inform the students and their guardians of her intention to conduct the research study.
Additionally, Dr. Coswalt has no plans to submit her proposal to her university’s …show more content…
Coswalt will attempt to collect data on student behavioral violations through their school and other status or delinquency offenses through the juvenile justice agency. It may be difficult for Dr. Coswalt to obtain this confidential information from the school district, as well as from the local juvenile justice agency. Criminal records are confidential and hard to obtain. Dr. Coswalt plans to keep records of each student’s name, which should be kept confidential. She should take extra care to protect the identity of the juveniles. The data that is collected should be stored in a secure database that can only be accessed by Dr. Coswalt. The personal data collected should never be shared with
Research should expose participants to no more than minimal risk of personal harm, researchers should fully disclose the purposes of their research, participation in research should be voluntary, and therefore subjects must give their informed consent to participate in the research, and confidentiality must be maintained for individual research participants unless it is voluntarily and explicitly waived. (p. 60)
Although Dr. Coswalt protects the research participants from no more than a minimal risk of personal harm, the research scenario still violates three of these principles. Dr. Coswalt has failed to fully disclose the purpose of her research to the participants and their guardians. Dr. Coswalt and the participating schools mistakenly believed that the students and guardians should not be informed of the study, so that students would not change their behavior, a term known as the “Hawthorne effect” (Bachman & Schutt, 2014, p. 192). I would recommend that Dr. Coswalt create an informational brochure explaining her reasons for conducting research and inform the students and their guardians of her intention to conduct the research study.
Additionally, Dr. Coswalt has no plans to submit her proposal to her university’s …show more content…
Coswalt will attempt to collect data on student behavioral violations through their school and other status or delinquency offenses through the juvenile justice agency. It may be difficult for Dr. Coswalt to obtain this confidential information from the school district, as well as from the local juvenile justice agency. Criminal records are confidential and hard to obtain. Dr. Coswalt plans to keep records of each student’s name, which should be kept confidential. She should take extra care to protect the identity of the juveniles. The data that is collected should be stored in a secure database that can only be accessed by Dr. Coswalt. The personal data collected should never be shared with