IRB Approval for ENG 315 Inquiry Projects
Good news for those of you who want to share your inquiry work beyond our ENG 315 class — CMU’s Institutional Review Board has granted us permission to do the research!
So, this message applies to you if you plan to put any or all of your work online, or if you want to use the data you find to present to others as a part of a job interview or professional conference presentation/journal article. If you only plan to share it within our classroom, then you DO NOT have to use these forms for your interviews. Even if you are not sharing your work beyond ENG 315, you should still discuss your project with your teacher and the people that you are interviewing, as that is ethical practice for teacher researchers.
I have posted the consent forms on our wiki, on the syllabus page (http://eng315.wikispaces.com/Syllabus), under the inquiry project heading in the following paragraph:
If you are interviewing teachers or students, please describe your research process to them. If you plan on sharing your findings beyond ENG 315 (online, in other classes, in future presentations), you must get informed consent. For teachers, please have them fill out the teacher consent form. For students, please have them take a parent consent form home to be completed by their parents. Once that form is complete, review the child assent form with the student and complete it with him/her. If you have questions about this process, please contact Troy right away.
Good luck with your continued research. I am very excited to see your work develop this semester and I am looking forward to seeing your multigenre projects and portfolios in the coming weeks.
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