COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ETHICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Buca Faculty Of Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ESRA BUKOVA GÜZEL

Offered to

Turkish Language Teacher Education
Computer and Instructional Technologies Teacher Education
Music Teacher Education
Chemistry Teacher Education
Biology Teacher Education
Turkish Language and Literature Teacher Education
Geography Teacher Education
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
French Language Teacher Education
Physics Teacher Education
PRE - SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION
ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION
Special Teacher Education
Mathematics Teacher Education
Buca Faculty Of Education
German Language Teacher Education
Elementary Teacher Education
Science Teacher Education
History Teacher Education
Guidance and Psychological Counseling
FINE ARTS TEACHER EDUCATION
Social Studies Teacher Education

Course Objective

This course aims to equip students of all departments with the knowledge and skills regarding the basic concepts of science ethics and research ethics; to create awareness about preparing a scientific research; to teach the codes of conduct and legal legislations during a publication process of a scientific research and to teach the strategies to prevent and to determine unethical behaviors during a scientific research.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define ethics and ethical theories
2   To be able to explain the concepts of research and publication ethics
3   To be able to explain the ethical codes of a scientific research
4   To be able to evaluate the strategies to prevent unethical behaviors during a scientific research
5   To be able design a scientific research appropriate to research and publication ethics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Science, nature and development of science; basic components of scientific research
2 Concept of ethics and ethical theories
3 Research and publication ethics
4 Unethical behaviors in research ethics: Literature review, Methodology and data collection
5 Unethical behaviors in research ethics: Findings and results
6 Unethical behaviors in publication ethics: Authorship and publication bias
7 Unethical behaviors in publication ethics: Editorship and blind review
8 General Review, Course Evaluation, Midterm Exam
9 Academic ethics education
10 Codes and legal legislations related to publication and research ethics
11 Strategies to determine ethical violations
12 Common ethical violations of researches and publications and methods to prevent ethical common violations
13 Preparing a research appropriate to research ethics and publication ethics
14 Presenting and discussing the researches
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Aydın, I. (2016). Akademik etik. Ankara: Pegem Yayıncılık.
Kurt, M., Nacar, R. & Elitaş, C. (2015). Akademik araştırma ve etik. Ankara: Gazi Kitabevi.
Lahmnan, M. K. E. (2018). Ethics in social science research: becoming culturally responsive. Los Angeles, LA: Sage Publication.
Anderson, E. E. & Corneli, A. (2018). 100 queetions (and answers) about research ethics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, discussion, question-answer, observation, group study, case study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.125
LO.235
LO.325
LO.434
LO.535