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Ethical Thought: The importance of a peer review

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Ethical Thought: The importance of a peer review. 

 

Dr. Bowen research in the past couple of years has focused on programs geared at getting students to abstain from using drugs. Her program involves the local police taking prisoners to the middle schools. These prisoners are incarcerated for drug possession or dealing. The prisoners speak to the students on the danger of getting involved with drug use. Dr. Bowen has tried several times to get her research published, but to no avail. She has posted her research on her own website. Some schools have shown interest in the program she developed. They have even decided to implement her program into their school system. 

 

Reflection Questions: 

1. Why do you think Dr. Bowen's research may have been rejected by the journals? 

2. Can you think of a problem with the school system implementing the program into their school system even though it has not been published? 

3. Put yourself on the school board for one of the school systems. What would you do, and what advice would you give to the other school board members?