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VII. Student Research
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What Constitutes Student Research Subject to IRB Review? |
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Some student-conducted studies that involve human participants are considered research and are subject to IRB review, including those:
- intended to satisfy the academic requirements for Independent Study or the Master’s Thesis;
- intended to result in publication, presentation outside the classroom, or public dissemination in some other form;
- conducted outside the classroom and/or departmental research participant pool if they involve minors, or populations of adults whose ability to freely give informed consent may be compromised (i.e., persons who are socioeconomically, educationally, or linguistically disadvantaged, cognitively impaired, elderly, terminally ill, or incarcerated; or pregnant women and/or fetuses who may be put at risk of physical harm; or a topic of a sensitive or personal nature, the examination or reporting of which may place the research participant at more than minimal risk; or any activity placing participants at more than minimal risk.
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What Student Research is not Subject to IRB Review? |
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Student-conducted not subject to IRB review include those:
- Operated within the confines of the classroom or within a departmental research participant pool if they are a general requirement of a course;
- Or have the sole purpose of developing the student's research skills, and will be overseen by a faculty member;
- Or are conducted outside the classroom and outside the departmental research participant pools, provided they do not involve minors, do not target special adult populations, do not pose a risk of physical harm to pregnant women and fetuses, do not deal with a topic of sensitive or personal nature, or do not involve any type of activity that places the participants at more than minimal risk;
- Or that are part of a larger research project that has current University of the District of Columbia IRB approval;
- Or that are part of a larger research project that has current approval of a registered IRB at another institution, provided that, if research participants are to be recruited at UDC, the UDC IRB has given permission for such on campus recruitment.
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Prepared by the University of the District of Columbia Institutional Review Board (UDC IRB) with reference to the Institutional Review Board Guidebook (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/irb/irb_guidebook.htm). The UDC IRB acknowledges the assis tance of the College of Charleston, which shared its web materials, on which UDC’s materials are based. The UDC IRB is also indebted to many other fine university web sites which it has visited in the course of preparing these ma terials, and in particular commends the design and content of the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus website. |
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