HI On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (posting for a colleague):
> Earlier today I received an envelope in my mailbox containing a number of > blank surveys and a cover letter requesting my participation in the research > project. The researcher is a undergraduate student in an Experimental > Research and Design course and is conducting this study as part of the course > requirements. In the cover letter, the student researcher requested that I > distribute the surveys to the students in one of my classes, allow them class > time to anonymously complete the survey, and return the completed surveys to > our department chair (who is also the instructor of the course). The cover > letter had all the standard elements of an informed consent form, including a > comment that the research had been approved by the appropriate university > review boards, but the letter did not include the name of the student > researcher. Instead of the signature, it read: �Name Withheld (to prevent > bias in people responding)�. If the name of the researcher being withheld was part of the ethics approval, then I would NOT second-guess the review committee. Getting approval for innocuous social science research is becoming (in my opinion) excessively medicalized with respect to ethics. If every participant in a study or every intermediary can lay claim to their own ethical guidelines, then it would become even more of a challenge. As an instructor, however, you are probably free to distribute or not distribute as you see fit. Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
