Scientific Research Ethics Committee

Chairman of the Committee

Prof. Awatef Al-Sayed Ahmed Al-Sayed

Committee members

Prof. Naglaa Abd el Megied Mohamed Ibrahim
Prof. Neama Mohamed El Magabi Hassan
Prof. Nahed Shawkat Abo EL-Magd
Prof. Hamida Aalam Al-Dien Abdel-Hafez Ali
Dr. Asmaa Ali Mahgoub Taher
Dr. Saida Abdel-Hameed Abdel-Aziz Mohammed
Dr. Ghada Shalaby khalaf Mehran
Dr. Hanaa Moukhtar Ibrahim Mohamed
Dr. Shayaa Sayed Khalil Ibrahim
Dr. Taghreed Abdel-Aziz Mohammed (scientific member)

Community member

Ahmed fathi farag

Committee Secretary

Mahamoud Abdel-Hafez Abdel- Elnaeim

Teaching ethics

To master the scientific material that the member teaches.
To be aware of the educational matters and the teaching techniques and methods.
To be familiar with the recent updates in the taught material and the combined educational culture.
To apply quality standards to the subject they are teaching to raise the level of the graduate while keeping a good profession performance in society.
To explain the course framework, educational objectives, and contents to his students.
To well-manage the educational meeting and utilize the teaching time to the interest of the students.
To teach students the logical thinking skills and encourage them to form an independent opinion, to help them being creative and innovative.
To change and develop teaching methods in a way that makes it interesting and enjoyable for students.
To allow discussion and objection according to the principles of constructive dialogue, which creates better opportunities for learning.
To do their job with sincerity, honesty, and perseverance to keep the cognitive and moral development of students.
To refrain from giving private lessons.
Faculty members are prohibited from accepting gifts or private donations from persons related to the work of faculty members.

The ethics of applying student evaluation and exams systems:

To apologize for participating in the examinations work for relatives up to the fourth degree to avoid suspicion and to avoid human weakness. This applies to all examinations work: preparing, conducting, correcting, and revising the exams as well as giving the grades to monitor the grades and announce the results.
To follow up the performance of students and take care of continuous and periodic evaluation of them. Therefore, their results will reflect their real level.
To inform the students of the results of their evaluation in order to motivate the distinguished students to keep their high level as well as to motivate troubled students to correct their path to reach better results.
To be fair in preparing exams by sticking to what has been taught and what has been achieved, and to sort the students' levels fairly, without extremism or dropout.
To inform all students about the assessment and all examination system: theoretical, oral, or practical. Therefore, students will know the basics of the evaluation and examination system that they will be subjected to.
Distribution of grades during the examination design based on its questions, provided that this distribution is announced to the students and written on the examination paper until the student decides how to manage their time, and how to answer according to the assessment of their capabilities, this will guarantee justice, equality, and equal opportunities for all.
To be accurate, fair, and discipline in the work of exams.
To be careful and avoid errors, so students won’t get less or more than they deserves.
To seek justice, hence the result is commensurate with the effort made by the student, which requires correcting any error that is discovered, either by the correctors and auditors or by the complaint of those affected, as well as seeking discipline to provide the required quiet and organization in the examination session so that everyone who’s taking the exam has a full opportunity to succeed.
To prevent cheating and punish cheaters so the results of the exams reflect the real levels of students. As cheating achieves undeserved results, which leads to loss of self-confidence, or loss of trust in the system, or loss of faith in the link between effort and return, which leads to a weak assessment of trust. Students also may get used to taking what is not deserved without feeling guilty and obtaining a certificate they don’t deserve and practicing a profession without merit, which harms the whole society.
To assign the correction work to those who are qualified and trustworthy members, which indicates that those responsible for the correction and revision should qualified for that. It is not allowed to give the model answer to unqualified members. As this is a sort of dishonesty and irresponsibility.
To commit to accuracy and fairness in correcting exams, by conducting a first review and a second review of the corrected exams to ensure its accuracy and fairness. The auditors must also carry out their work accurately and in a manner that achieves fairness.

To observe strict confidentiality in all examinations work until the results are announced, through:
1. First: providing equal opportunities for students.
2. Second: avoiding the personal influence of subjective considerations on any of the exams.
3. Third: avoiding potential confusion due to leakage of results before announcing them or leakage of clemency rules before their implementation, in order to provide calm and tranquility for the examiners to perform their work efficiently.

To present the results of the various subjects to the examiners' committees without the list of the names until the decisions are taken with complete impartiality

Research ethics

To commit to scientific integrity in research work and only take credit of his original work and thoughts.
To direct his research to what benefits knowledge and society as a fundamental moral obligation by virtue of his job
To respect the intellectual property of others and accuracy in conveying ideas and referring to the sources from which the researcher drew the information he used in his research according to the principles of his methodology, while mentioning the name of the author.
To not to amputate the transcripts that violate the intention of their owner, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
To clarify the participants names in joint research carefully and avoid the naming of courtesy or treatment
To collect the data carefully and accurately without bias on the part of the researcher.
To present the data in a clear form and the research written in sufficient detail to enable researchers to repeat experiments and verify the results.

In the field of supervising scientific theses

There are moral rules governing the process of supervising scientific theses, and they are represented in the following points:

To provide scientific advice in the process of selecting a research topic.
To make sure the researcher is able to continue his research under the supervision of the professor.
To develop the student's capabilities to take his research responsibilities, analyzes, and results.
To evaluate the research accurately and fairly, whether it is the researches they supervise or that it is claimed to participate in the judgment.
To not to underestimate or liquidate the student’s abilities during the research or in the scientific discussion sessions. As it’s considered a moral violation of the professor’s responsibility towards contributing to the proper cognitive and moral development of the student.
To emphasize the academic honesty continually.
To develop the students' abilities to think and be creative in new research areas.

Professional ethics in serving the university and society:

To link what a faculty member knows to students with the needs of the community in addition to devoting a large part of his/her effort and knowledge to the problems that the community suffers from
To be keen on preparing the human energies that society needs, and providing them with the latest experiences
To be keen on developing applied research and linking it to the real labor market in society
To work on strengthening the ties with the various productive institutions to direct interaction between them, therefore the faculty members contribute to solving the problems facing these institutions.

Reference

Dr. Sedek Muhamed Afifi, Professional and universities ethics, Leadership Development Project, 2008. The Charter of Ethics for the Teaching Profession, Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Education, 2006

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