Web Exercises
- The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) offers an extensive online training course in the basics of human subjects protections issues. Go to the public access CITI site at www.citiprogram.org/rcrpage.asp?affiliation=100 and complete the course in social and behavioral research. Write a short summary of what you have learned.
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services maintains extensive resources concerning the protection of human subjects in research. Read several documents that you find on its website, www.hhs.gov/ohrp, and write a short report about them.
- Read the entire ASA Code of Ethics at the website of the ASA Ethics Office, www.asanet.org/images/asa/docs/pdf/CodeofEthics.pdf. Discuss the difference between the aspirational goals and the enforceable rules.