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.
- 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.
- 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.
- If you are doing a research project, what level of review (exempt, expedited, or full) is required for your project? Explain your answer.