>Does your institution require you to get approval from your Institutional
>Review Board when you (or your students) acquire data using simple surveys
>of issues that are not "sensitive"?
What timing... I just sent off an IRB protocol so that my Research Methods
class could do that very assignment.
Not only do we have to do IRBs, but EVERYONE involved in ANY kind of data
collection has to go through some sort of human subjects training. The way
most people satisfy this requirement is through an on-line tutorial that
the NIH set up... Unfortunately for us psychology people, the NIH tutorial
does not focus (or cover for that matter) issues that are important to
psychology. So, most of our psych. students simply page through the
material as fast as their browser lets them, and then they receive a
"certificate of completion."
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Stephen W. Tuholski Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville
Edwardsville IL 62026
Phone: 618 650 5391
Fax: 618 650 5087
http://www.siue.edu/~stuhols
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell
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