Build Your Skills

These lively and stimulating ideas for use in and out of class reinforce active learning. The activities apply to individual or group projects.

  1. Some social and behavioral scientists think IRB review is unnecessary for most research, which involves no more than minimal risk. Using evidence from the chapter, make a case that IRB review is beneficial, even for projects with no more than minimal risk.
     
  2. Identify the informed consent components (discussed earlier in this chapter) in the statements in the sample informed consent document in Appendix B at the end of this book.
     
  3. If you are doing a research project, what level of review (exempt, expedited, or full) is required for your project? Explain your answer.