Ethical Considerations In Conducting Research For Thesis: Students’ Beliefs And Practices

This study is about ethical consideration in conducting research for thesis, student beliefs and practices. This study used a qualitative method with an interview and document analysis approach, semi-structured interviews was used to investigate individual opinions or experience on one or a few precisely defined topics, moreover document analysis with analyzed to determine the research quality, reliability, and appropriateness. The result of this study shown that all participants has carry out the ethic research correctly and also beliefs that ethic in research is important because every researcher needs ethic to guide a well procedure in conducting research. Furthermore from 22 thesis that have been analyze, the finding shown that all researchers have carried out the research ethics correctly, it can be justified through the interview, but they did not write down the ethical procedures directly, only explicitly in the appendix of their research. Moreover all students have passed a plagiarism check which certifies that their research is theirs. Furthermore, knowledge about ethics is still lacking in our scope, different with America, Australia or Scotlandia which has special committees such as SERA or AERA.