As a department you should probably discuss if it is desirable to have
multiple recruitment strategies or whether you want them all to go
though the subject pool. Perhaps multiple reward structures is confusing
to students (maybe not) or perhaps there are already too few studies for
the subject pool. But these are practical rather than ethical matters.
From an ethical perspective, I think this situation is no different
from any other recruitment situation. As with all recruitment there
needs to be non-coercive measures in place (not offering too much if an
reward), assurances of the voluntariness, anonymity or confidentiality
of responses, etc. etc. I know that folks differ on how "fragile"
students are in the recruitment situation. If you guys already have a
subject pool you have obviously decided that it can be worthwhile and
ethical for students to participate in research projects (including
those run by the professor of the students' intro class). Whatever
ethical safeguards you have in place for the subject pool could easily
be applied to the individual recruitment case.
Marie
Ken Steele wrote:
I am curious how tips folks would react to the following situation.
We have a typical subject pool available from our introductory psych
course. However, a faculty member wants to recruit only current
students in classes taught by that faculty member. The reasons for
this procedure remain ambiguous.
My view is that this seems akin to a "dual relationship" situation and
should be avoided. But I am unclear whether this would be an actual
violation of ethical guidelines such that an IRB would not approve the
procedure.
What do you think?
Ken
---------------------------------------------------------------
Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
---------------------------------------------------------------
---
To make changes to your subscription go to:
http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
--
*********************************************
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773
Carlisle, PA 17013
Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971
Webpage: www.dickinson.edu/~helwegm
*********************************************
---
To make changes to your subscription go to:
http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
