Exam 4: Ethics on the Ground: A Moral Compass

A research ethics board ________.

The ethics of covert research are always closely tied to the ________.

Many consider ________ to be an unethical study.

In Canada, ethical considerations for researchers working with human participants are laid out in the ________.

The 2010 edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement has a separate chapter devoted to qualitative research.

When writing up your report, you can accomplish the goal of ethical writing by doing each of the follow, except ________.

Student researchers who conduct studies involving humans do not need to apply for ethics approval.

You complete a report in which you criticize the lack of knowledge about sterilization in medical practice in the early twentieth century. You have just committed the error of ________.

Describe the difference between covert research and deceptive research. As a novice qualitative researcher, would you be comfortable conducting research of this nature? Explain why or why not.

It is of critical importance that, regardless of how you collect your data, you must ________.

The example in the textbook of how, during her study of maternity homes, the administrators wanted Merlinda Weinberg's reports and field notes for the purpose of complying with an external funder's requirement demonstrates ________.

According to the author, the key difference between deception in research and covert research is that ________.

As the textbook demonstrates, the ethical complexity involved in doing research in a private organization or corporation makes it impossible to do such research.

Asking someone how something happened rather than why they did something encourages that person to discuss his or her motives in context and to create ________.

List the three ethical principles that form the basis of many official research ethics codes. Discuss each briefly and explain why these are core ethical principles for ethical qualitative researchers.

Historically, researchers prioritized creating ethical spaces for research involving Indigenous peoples in Canada.

According to the textbook, one barrier to developing an open-minded research question is ________.

In order to conduct ethical research, it is essential that the researcher ________.

Anik is planning his fieldwork in rural British Columbia where he will be conducting fieldwork with a group of older tree planters. Anik is going into the field with an open mind, preparing to ask "how" questions instead of "why" questions, and preparing to forego a remedial attitude. He is also trying to prepare for how he will get his participants to open up candidly about their management but he knows that the geography and social setting of his field research involve close confines where management camp alongside the tree planters. By taking all of this into consideration prior to entering the field, Anik is trying to ________.

According to the Tri-Council Policy Statement, the ethical principles that stand at the core of all research projects involving human participants are ________.