대학부설 과학영재교육원 과학영재들의 연구윤리 위반 경험

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate experiences and reasons for the violation of research ethics by science gifted students at the Science Gifted Education Center affiliated with a university in a metropolitan city. Research subjects were a total of 74 including 16 elementary and 58 middle school students. The research subjects responded to the survey questionnaire on experiences of violation of research ethics in March 2021, and analyzed the response data to explore differences by school level, gender and major area. As results, first, it was found that 68.9% (51 out of 74) of research subjects had violated research ethics. The violation rate for each of the 10 subcategories of research ethics was 19.9% ​​on average, and one in five students had an experience of violation. The most frequently violated categories were self-plagiarism (31.1%), data falsification (29.7%), and granting unfairly authorship (21.6%). Second, the reasons for the violation of research ethics were classified into 8 sub-items. These items could be classified into cognitive, affective and social categories, and four sub-items of the cognitive category were: 1) to force correct answer; 2) to concerns about low scores, 3) poor ability to perform experiments; 4) lack of ethical knowledge, and three sub-items of affective category were: 1) lack of strict adherence to research ethics; 2) lack of integrity in compliance with research ethics; 3) lack of time management skills, and one sub-item of the social category was avoidance of conflicts between friends. Third, in terms of the reasons for violation of research ethics by school level, it was found that elementary school science gifted students falsify correct answers more than middle school students. It was found that elementary school science gifted students plagiarize more than middle school students because they did not understand research ethics well. In conclusions, it is necessary to set the educational contents in connection with the reasons for violating research ethics, and to provide customized education according to the characteristics of each variable.