Student compliance with ethical guidelines: the Glasgow ethics code

Purchase, H.C. (2006) Student compliance with ethical guidelines: the Glasgow ethics code. Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 5(2),

Abstract

While disciplines like medicine and psychology have for several years followed strict procedures for ethical approval of experiments involving humans, only recently has the use of human participants within Computing Science been subject to the same scrutiny. Although we may wish to put a case forward for Computing Science to be exempt from such formal ethics procedures, funding bodies and universities typically insist that we seek the same approval as other disciplines for our experiments, including any use of human participants by our students during the course of their studies. We have introduced a simple, scalable ethics procedure for student assessment, that identifies ethical concerns, yet does not overwhelm the limited staff resources available for supporting this initiative. The process is based around a form of triage that filters the approximately 8000 assessments that are submitted annually. This paper summarises this procedure, discusses the underlying assumptions, and outlines the problems encountered.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Purchase, Dr Helen
• Authors: Purchase, H.C.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Journal Name: Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences
• Publisher: LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences
• ISSN: 1473-7507
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2006 LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with permission of the author