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 issues with research regarding human subjects because it does not involve farming any human or direct effect on their physique or health. Therefore, no additional approval is required for such research.
However, the privacy of students must be protected. Which will be done by just generally discussing the results and the findings except for the methodology and the people.
Explanation:
In order to ensure the privacy of students involved in research application, the students should be kept as anamolus group of people without any tracibility of students.
Since the research does not involve any effects on human health so there is no legal requirement, but tkaing approval would support the research atleast.
Also it is ethically advised that students should be informed earlier that this is a reseach based activity and its results will be made public, without compromising their secrity.
If Human Research Approval is taken, it can add value to authenticty of research when going public