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Suppose you have a strong interest in physics education, and in pursuit of that interest you want to assess the effectiveness of two different strategies for running recitation sections in large introductory physics courses. The professor who runs the course agrees that both of your proposed strategies have educational merit and that you can try them out on two independent sections of the class. At the end of the term, you discover a clear difference in test performance between the students in the two different groups. You want to give a talk at an American Association of Physics Teachers meeting about your results.
Questions
• What steps do you need to take in order to ensure the privacy of the students is adequately protected?
• Do you need Human Research Approval in order to give the talk?
• If you receive permission to give the talk, what additional steps do you have to take to protect the privacy of your students?
• Are there consequences to giving the talk without asking about Human Research Approval?
• Does this violate any ethical guidelines?
Answers
Explanation:
Physicists usually do not face such situation where they need to gain additional approval for research involving human subjects.
This is due to the fact that physics research does not involve negative impact or side effects on any human subjects like medical science or study of medicines.
However, care must be taken to protect the privacy of students because sharing personal data is the violation of rules and against ethics.
Therefore, only finding of research must be share in the talk.
Explanation:
In order to ensure the privacy of students involved in research application, the students should be kept as anomalous group of people without any traceability of students.
Since the research does not involve any effects on human health so there is no legal requirement, but taking approval would support the research at least.
Also it is ethically advised that students should be informed earlier that this is a research based activity and its results will be made public, without compromising their security.
If Human Research Approval is taken, it can add value to authenticity of research when going public