申请IRB审核
All research involving human subjects requires approval from the 院校检讨委员会. Please complete the steps below and allow at least 7-10 days for standard proposal review and three to four weeks for proposals requiring full board review.
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Agnes Scott subscribes to the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program). Complete the basic CITI online training course in human subject protection relevant for your area of study. To complete the training, go to the 花旗银行网站 并注册. 有关其他说明，请参阅 教务及学生资料 MyAgnes门户网站上.
All 正规博彩十大网站排名学院 affiliates can complete CITI courses. 教师 and staff members with equivalent human subjects research certification (such as the NIH certificate) may submit them in lieu of the CITI course.
Download and complete the appropriate form from the list below.
- Form A: Research conducted by individual 正规博彩十大网站排名学院 students (doc 44kb)
- Form B: Research conducted by 正规博彩十大网站排名学院 faculty and staff (doc 41kb)
- Form C: Research conducted as part of an Agnes Scott class assignment (doc 42kb)
All students must receive the same assignment and use the same research design. 否则，请使用表格A. - Form D: Research conducted by faculty or staff external to 正规博彩十大网站排名学院 (doc 43kb)
- Form E: Research conducted by students external to 正规博彩十大网站排名学院 (doc 53kb)
检查 IRB教员指南.
If you intend to use a research instrument (e.g. a written or online survey, elicitation images or words, etc.) to collect data from human subjects, you must include it with your application materials.
调查指南
- Determine if your study is anonymous or confidential. An anonymous survey is one in which information obtained is recorded in such a manner that human subjects cannot be identified directly or through identifiers linked to study participants. In other words, your data is being submitted by unidentifiable sources.
- Information obtained in confidential surveys is recorded in such a manner that researchers can identify human subjects directly or through identifiers linked to participants.
- Explain the following to potential respondents at the beginning of the survey (for additional guidelines, see our sample consent forms):
- 这个项目涉及研究
- 研究的目的
- 这种参与是自愿的
- whether you will ensure anonymity or confidentiality of participants
- the time necessary to complete the survey
- anticipated number of respondents
- money or other remuneration offered to respondents for participating
- contact information for the researcher(s)
- Provide contact information if the respondent has questions or 担忧. You may use language similar to the following example:
- You may make inquiries concerning this research project and its procedures by contacting my research supervisor, 教授(名字), 系……, 正规博彩十大网站排名学院, 亚特兰大, GA 30030 via phone at [number] or [email address].
- If you feel you have not been treated according to the descriptions in this form, or your rights as a participant in research have not been honored during the course of this project, 或者你们有任何问题, 担忧, or complaints that you wish to address to someone other than the investigator, you may contact the 正规博彩十大网站排名学院 院校检讨委员会 at 141 E. 学院大街nue, Decatur, GA, or email irb@hqrfw.net.
- Send the actual survey to the IRB along with your other application materials. This applies to all survey research.
If you are collecting information that can be linked to a particular human subject, or if you are interacting with the human subject, you will need an informed consent form. Informed consent forms are necessary to demonstrate that human subjects have agreed to participate in a research project.
例如, informed consent is required for interviews, and whenever a human subject is being audio-recorded or video-recorded.
检查 知情同意书核对表 了解更多.
例子:
- 同意书样本 (doc 15kb)
- 同意书样本 for Online Surveys (doc 18kb)
- 视频发布表格样本 (doc 13kb)
一旦IRB批准, the researcher will distribute informed consent forms, to be signed by both the human subject and the researcher. One copy will be given to the human subject and another copy will be retained by the researcher.
Informed consent forms are unnecessary when research is being conducted anonymously or unobtrusively:
- Anonymous research is when data is collected on human subjects whose identity is unknown to the researcher (for example, 匿名的调查).
- Unobtrusive research is when the researcher observes human subjects from a distance and does not interact with them (or when the researcher uses documents or other materials with information about human subjects).
If you are unsure if informed consent is necessary, contact the IRB at irb@hqrfw.net.