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Maintaining quality and ethics in Internet-based guidance applications is the shared responsibility of funding agents, policy makers, developers, practitioners, users, and researchers and evaluators. This paper presents a series of synergistic recommendations to the above participants that are designed to improve the delivery of Internet-based guidance applications in an ethically responsible manner.
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Sampson, J.P. Quality and Ethics in Internet-Based Guidance. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance 2, 157–171 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020665316813
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