As a member of my institution's IRB, I reacted to the following segment: "Willingham also shared anecdotes about students she’d worked with during her career, such as one who was illiterate, and one who couldn’t read multisyllabic words. Another student asked if Willingham could "teach him to read well enough so he could read about himself in the news,". It seems to me that it might, indeed, be possible to identify those individual students based on the statements Willingham made. If so, that is a problem from an IRB perspective because broadcasting such details about the students could conceivably result in social harm for them. That aside, in addition to the issue of tenure, this case also illustrates the need to be extremely careful with all aspects of the research process when such research has the potential of being controversial and of generating public interest.
Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Green" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 8:44:25 AM Subject: [tips] For your friends who question tenure... For those of you (probably not many on this list) who might have thought that tenure is unnecessary in this "modern" era to protect the integrity of research from the political motivations of a vindictive administration. UNC IRB suddenly reverses its decision AFTER THE FACT on whether research that shows many of its athletes to be functionally illiterate requires oversight. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/20/u-north-carolina-shuts-down-whistle-blower-athletes Sheesh! Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=1133043.af3ec43309a63197bc82eb6702801542&n=T&l=tips&o=32912 or send a blank email to leave-32912-1133043.af3ec43309a63197bc82eb6702801...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32913 or send a blank email to leave-32913-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
