Design Your SoTL Project
Ethical Concerns
Since not all the students in the course might be interested in participating in the study and letting the teacher/research use their data, I plan on sending out an invite to participate at the beginning of the course. In the invite, I will state the purpose of the study, and how I plan to collect data. Most importantly, I will state that students’ participation is not mandatory, nor will it be tied to their course grade. To achieve this, I (the instructor) will invite a colleague (co-investigator) to present the study and collect participants’ signed consent forms. The list of participants (and non-participants) will be coded and kept confidential from the instructor.
To further ensure participant and data privacy, all participant consent forms, and data storage devices will be stored in locked physical/electronic storage devices.
Before conducting the research, I will also see approval from the institutional research ethics committee. I will explain the experimental procedure in the application. To my knowledge, the procedure does not involve any risk of physical or emotional danger to participants.
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