Week 7 adv assgn

Office of Research and Compliance: IRB Requirements for Selecting Participants

Please note the following conditions for all COURSE-BASED data collection projects:

• Students may only interview adult family members or acquaintances. No strangers may be recruited for this training activity.

• Students may not seek out protected populations such as children, prisoners, residents of any facility, or mentally/emotionally disabled individuals for this project unless they have obtained IRB approval using the standard full review process via forms found at the university’s IRB website (which takes a minimum of 6 weeks). Note that this does NOT mean the student should ask the interviewee if s/he has a disability. The policy is simply that students may not seek out protected populations for this training exercise. If a student wishes to practice an interview that is designed for people in a protected class (i.e., children), then the student will need to ask an adult friend to roleplay the part of the participant.

• Students are required to store their project data in electronic format (e.g., Word, Excel, SPSS, Nvivo, etc.) for the duration of their course and then must

dispose of the data at the time final grades are assigned.

• Students must de-identify the data as soon as is realistically possible to minimize risk of inappropriate disclosure of personal information. De-identification consists of removing all direct identifiers such as names, addresses, or telephone numbers from the raw data and database. Students must take precautions to not disclose to anyone else (including the instructor) any part of the data that is linkable to a participant’s identity.

• Payments, compensation, reimbursement, free services, or extra credit or other gifts may NOT be preferentially given to the project participants. This is to

ensure voluntary participation.

• Interview data generated by this training assignment is not eligible for inclusion in the dissertation or any other study.

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