Ethics in educational research

Abstract

Ethics in educational research is a fundamental factor that should be considered for the realization of
studies that include the participation of diverse subjects. Researchers must face complex scenarios and
complete it with a series of national and international guidelines that are intended to respect the rights
of people who undergo the research process specifically in the field of education. For this reason, there
are international instruments and their main elements are ethical principles that include considerations
about the person, to prevent it from being a simple object studied. However, in the inquiry activity there
are different ethical problems that are related to the participants, the incorrect use of the research, the
researcher, the plagiarism and the use of false data. In relation to the ethical act in educational research,
educators must responsibly conduct their studies without harming any human being. The results affirm
that the ethics applied to the research in education provides to the investigators theoretical,
methodological and normative foundations on the moral to achieve the development of the inquiring
process in a coherent way. The objective of this work of bibliographical review is to describe the
importance of the ethics in educational research.