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BERA: Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research 2011

Resource Type: 
etf
PID: 
etf:2726
Description: 

A guide by the British Education Research Association (BERA) to support educational researchers in conducting research to the highest ethical standards.

Taxonomy: 
Practitioner Research and Evidence Hub: 
Yes
Principal focus of the project: 

To outline the responsibilities to participants, to sponsors of research, to the community of research, to educational professionals, policy makers and general public.

What is this about and what were the main findings: 

All educational research should be conducted within an ethic of respect for the person (any person involved in the research), knowledge, democratic values, the quality of educational research and academic freedom. Researchers must fulfill their responsibilities to sponsors, conduct research to the highest standards and must endeavour to communicate their findings in a clear way.

Number of learner participants: 
N/A
Number of staff participants: 
N/A
Number of organisation participants: 
1
Name(s) of authors: 

British Education Research Association