The Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, Governance, and Ethics in Education in the USA, Europe, and Ukraine: Comparative Analysis

Abstract

<p style="text-align: justify;">The purpose of the study is to identify how the coverage of topics of the Code of Conduct for Research in Education in Ukraine is consistent with the ones from the United States of America (USA) and Europe. Furthermore, the study attempts to explore coherences in the documents so that these could be reviewed and addressed. The study used the methodology for mixed-methods systematic reviews to respond to the first research question and the survey research methodology to respond to the second one. It was identified that the research integrity and ethics terms were not sufficiently covered by the Codes of education and research organisations from Ukraine compared to the Codes from the USA and European Union (EU). It was found that there was a shift from emphasising the role of the researcher (contributor) in the Codes from the USA and EU to drawing the importance of regulatory and legal instruments for the maintenance of research integrity and ethics in Ukraine. The prescriptive wording in the Codes of professional organisations in the USA and EU was given much greater attention than in the Codes of educational and research institutions in Ukraine. The Codes of the educational and research institutions from Ukraine were considered to be tentatively consistent with the relevant ones from the database from the USA, and Europe.</p>

Research Ethics in Swedish Dissertations in Educational Science – A Matter of Confusion

“…Not only structures and concepts differ. Previous research has shown that there are large variations in research ethics depending on cultural or national traditions (Shykhnenko & Sbruieva, 2022), methodology (Beach & Eriksson, 2010;Levinson, 2010) attitude to ethics (Gharaveisi & Dastgoshadeh, 2020) and knowledge of ethics (Head, 2018). The study of Vadeboncoeur et al (2016) indicated a variety among the answers from ethical committees at universities regarding the requirements for the application.…”

“…The method is described as a guided group reflection based on a specific situation which can offer concrete norms while ethical codes are quite abstract. Research ethical considerations are handled differently depending on cultural or national traditions (Shykhnenko & Sbruieva, 2022), methodology (Beach & Eriksson, 2010;Levinson, 2010) attitude to ethics (Gharaveisi & Dastgoshadeh, 2020) and knowledge of ethics (Head, 2018). Madalinska-Michalak (2020) discusses the responsibility of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) to draw attention to and guide in research ethics.…”