This is a problem I have heard about from several other psychology departments. A few have even stopped assigning research projects (or have eliminated actual data collection in favor of giving students bogus data to analyze). I think this is unfortunate because collecting data and analyzing it to see what one has "discovered" is an important experience for students, especially those who are considering continuing with their psychology training. (I recall that this exciting experience was a major factor in my decision to go into experimental psychology.)
Alas, even a exempt review takes time. And it is often the excessive time delays for exempt review that causes grumbles. But a FULL IRB review? This is overkill to the detriment of the training of psychology students (as well as imposing a totally unnecessary burden on the IRB members). Who came up with this silly notion? It clearly exceeds the demands of federal policy.
Patricia Keith-Spiegel
Deb Briihl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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approval. For my course that is 15 weeks long, the students do submit their
materials to the IRB and we have an exempt category. Someone from the IRB
reviews the materials and the turnaround is usually about 1 week (sometimes
even less). If that isn't possible (like in my 6 week summer course), I
come up with an idea and run it past the IRB before the semester starts or
we develop one in class during the very first week and, since everyone is
doing the same project, I write it up for IRB approval.
At 12:38 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Tipsters:
>
>I teach introductory research methods almost every quarter, and as part of
>the course, students design and perform an original piece of research.
>They write a full APA style paper on this research, and present the
>research in a poster session. The poster session used to be public, but
>our local IRB has decided that any research presented outside the
>classroom must go through full IRB review. Unfortunately, as we have only
>ten weeks and this is an introductory class, there is not time for
>students to go through the full review. All research is minimal risk,
>frequently involving nothing more than an innocuous survey. While students
>are nervous about the poster session prior to its start, they have a good
>time once they realize they know their stuff.
>
>I am upset that we no longer may hold these public poster sessions. Has
>anyone else encountered similar roadblocks? How have they been handled?
>Any advise would be greatly appreciated. If there is enough response, I
>will compile the responses and forward them on to TIPS, so please send
>responses directly to me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Marte Fallshore
>Department of Psychology
>Central Washington University
>Ellensburg, WA
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Dr. Deborah S. Briihl
Dept. of Psychology and Counseling
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698
(229) 333-5994
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