Working with human subjects can be tricky business, but luckily for us, you will not be poking or prodding any of your research subjects (so there should be minimal risk to those you plan to interview, survey, or experiment with).
With that said, it is still critical that you disclose information to the human subjects you are working with. Universities have developed an Internal Review Board (IRB) system to make sure researchers comply with local, state, and federal ethics standards. As students who are in a first-year writing course, you do not have to complete IRB training to work with human subjects, but it is critically important that you disclose your intentions in writing to the people you are working with.
Please review the following information provided by Colorado State University:
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/page.cfm?pageid=1426
Upon reviewing the link above, you are tasked with developing an informed consent disclosure form to give to any participants you are studying. The site above gives plenty of information about what should appear in your disclosure form. Participants should sign the form and return it to you. You should provide each participant with an additional copy if said participant wants it for his/her records.
If your research involves textual analysis and you are not working with human subjects, please write a detailed outline about how your textual analysis will work.
I recommend you create your disclosure form as a word document and then paste it into the text box of this blog space.
Here is another link to a Google Images page that has many examples of Informed Consent Forms:
https://www.google.com/search?q=informed+consent+form&client=firefox-a&hs=Ld3&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=-uQLUrmODeSG2wX38oGYBA&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=636
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ReplyDeleteENC 1102-0039
Researcher: Eleana Alvarez
Project: My project is to determine how individuals under the age of nineteen feel about themselves after being exposed to different body image related photos/media. Information gathered from the survey that will be provided will be then analyzed further to understand what different body types do to different individuals upon viewing.
Purpose: The media's portrayal of the perfect body is becoming extremely problematic in our society and for teens and children growing up in this generation. This experiment will reveal how, due to television and media exposure, different body types make people feel upon being exposed to them and why they feel this way. This is all to help understand the poisonous influences the media is inflicting upon young people and their bodies/bodies different from their own and how the media is making it seem as though body type is a direct reflection of personality. The experiment will also explore eating disorders to see just how common they are becoming, what people think of them, and why they are occuring.
Procedure: You will be participating in a survey after viewing a series of video clips and images filled with different body types. Some of those will be the "ideal" type- thin, fit, strong. Some of those will be more average bodies, and overweight bodies. After viewing the series of media, you will then take the survey that will be asking you how you feel about yourself after viewing the images and video clips. You will be asked why, as well. You will then be asked to answer questions that regard your opinion on personality type and body type, and how much you believe they correlate. Finally you will be asked questions regarding eating disorders. Questions about strange eating behavior, why it happens, if it has happened to you, and why you have felt the need to do this.
Risks: There are no risks involved in this experiment. All I ask is for your time and honesty.
Thank you
I agree to participate in the "Media, Body Image, and Eating Disorders" survey experiment
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Project: An in depth examination of the opinions of students and adults alike in their subconscious choices of humor preference.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To attempt to decipher central themes or causes that effect what people find humorous.
Participant Help: You will be asked to watch three clips of humor, one that is family friendly, one that is just regular humor, and one that will likely offend you or go against things that you believe. After watching these, you will fill out a brief, yet detailed, questionaire asking a few questions to gather research from how you enjoy, or didn't enjoy, the clips that you were asked to watch.
Risk: There is no risk involved, though you may be offended by some of the humor that you are asked to view.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project "The What's and Why's of Humor", and you agree that I am allowed to use your results when explaining my research in a public forum.
Thank you very much!
Signature: __________________________________________
Date:_______________
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ReplyDeleteProject: My project is to determine if students with different majors have similarities based on what motivated them to choose that specific major. I believe that there is more to why a student chose one thing to do for the rest of their lives other than “they have a passion for it”. I believe that for others, there is something that has happened to them in their past that may lead to why or why they wouldn’t major in a specific field.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To find, compare and contrast the motivations of different college students that have different majors to pick that specific major. This information may help students with undecided majors to see how they are similar and also not so similar to the people I will be conducting my research on. The participants will be given surveys based on the reasons why they selected their major it can vary from things that that may have happened to the student, whether positive or negative or from childhood or recent event. There will also be other questions based on what major they absolutely don’t like and why because these things can have similar but opposite reasoning behind them.
Risks: There are no risks towards participants involved in this project.
Benefits: This study will further the conversation on students motivations as far as picking their majors. It could possibly help students like myself who aren't too sure about their majors to look into what motivates people that are sure about what they want to do in life. By viewing this information,
By signing this document you agree to participate in my research, “Students’ Majors & Motivations”, along with allowing me to use the results from this research in my inquiry based research paper.
Thanks for your time!
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Julia Chase
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Project: An in depth examination of the factors of food choice and meal plans in college students
Purpose: To attempt to decipher the factors of food choice in college students through a food journal
Participant Help: You will be asked to journal the things you eat where you eat them and what your motivations were for eating the food. You will also be asked if you have a religious factor in your food choice or if you purchased a meal plan
Risk: There is no risk involved
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project "factors of food choice in UCF college students ", and you agree that I am allowed to use your results when explaining my research in a public forum.
Thank you very much!
Signature: __________________________________________
Date:_______________
Gabrielle Chestnut
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Researcher: Gabrielle Chestnut
Project: My project is to determine if college women believe that the women in advertisements are the "ideal" type of woman and whether they are offended by the advertisements. Also, to determine if these opinions of theirs influence them an any way to strive to be like the women in advertisements.
Purpose: To find, compare, and contrast the results of the college women's opinions on this matter.
Participant Help: You will be given a survey written by me and asked to fill it out honestly. In the survey it will ask you questions like what your ideal body type is, if you think the women in the advertisements are the ideal woman, and if advertisements influence you in any way. The results will be anonymous and no names will be used in this research study.
Risks: There is no risk involved.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project "College women and the use of advertisements", and you agree that I am allowed to use the results in my research paper.
Thank you very much for your participation,
Gabrielle Chestnut
Signature: ____________________________________________
Date: ________________________
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ReplyDeleteAllison Hoyland
ENC 1102-0038
Researcher: Allison Hoyland
Project: The project focuses on whether or not the implementation of common core standards have impacted teaching procedures today and if these standards have a positive or negative effect on students’ learning. The information given from the participant will help close any gaps that have not yet been closed with this fairly new research topic.
Purpose: The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of nationwide standards implemented in grade k-12. There has been much debate over whether or not these standards are age appropriate for the students as well as if they are fitting for the teachers. Most of the research that has been done is from an outsider’s point of view. By speaking to a teacher the audience of the paper will have firsthand information on these standards. This will help people, not only working inside the school system, but everyone, understand the positive and negative effects of the CCSS.
Procedure: The participant will be ask a series of extended response questions regarding lesson plans, teaching methods, and student learning. Their names will be changed to protect anything that they say for or against the CCSS. There is no right or wrong answer to the questions, the goal is to better understand the major groups that will be affected by these standards.
Risks: There are no risks involved in this research project, all I need is your cooperation.
By signing this document you agree to participate in the research project regarding Common Core State Standards as well as allowing the researcher to use any information given throughout the interview.
Thank you for your time!
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Jonah Katz
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Project: An in depth examination violence in the NFL and American sports. Research includes the origin of violence, to what extent violence in necessary in a competitive sport, the role the media plays in influencing violence and how the NFL decides to what extent they promote or discourage violence.
Purpose: To get a general idea of how fans view and enjoy violence in the NFL.
Procedure: You will participate in a survey that asks you basic questions pertaining to NFL violence in which you will rate on a provided scale. Upon completion of the survey, you may be asked if you’d like to participate in a focus group where the topic will be discussed in greater depth.
Risk: There are no risks directly related to participating in this research
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project "violence in the NFL ", and you agree that I am allowed to use your results when explaining my research in a public forum.
Thank you for you participation
Signature: __________________________________________
Date:_______________
ENC 1102-0038
ReplyDeleteResearcher: Alexandra Beeman
Project: My project is an attempt to find the correlations between humanistic traditions and qualities and our nations everyday controversies.
Purpose: There has been a spike in controversies in the United States, that citizens are strictly taking one side or the other. I am doing this study in efforts to understand the background on how people’s opinions are shaped can help the government immensely come to “happy medium” solutions to many of the current controversies being argued around the nation.
Participant help: You will be asked to take a completely ANNOYNOMOUS survey. You will be asked questions that may be personal, may seem strange, and also will be controversial. You are asked to answer all questions in complete honesty, as no one will ever know what you personally answered. Also, after you are done taking the survey I ask that you help my study and I and share it with your friends, family, and co-workers as well.
Risk: There is no risk in taking my survey.
Benefits: Your participation will assist me in writing an effective research paper that looks into how to understand controversy which could eventually lead to helping government officials fix laws and such eliminating the large and blown up controversies when making, changing, and instating laws.
By taking this survey you agree to participate in my anonymous survey along with agreeing that I am allowed to use the answers and information you provide to draw conclusions and analyze results and incorporate them in my public research paper.
Thank you in advance for your time and most importantly, your significant and meaningful data!
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ReplyDeleteProject: My project is to determine the influences that stresses and pressures have on college students and how students cope with these stresses, and if these coping mechanisms are effective or not. The participants will be given a survey based on the different pressures and stresses that are common throughout their time at college. After completing the survey, there will be a focus group which we will discuss the different aspects of each coping methods.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To find, compare and contrast the different level of stresses that many college students face and how students decide cope with these stresses and to determine which coping mechanisms are the most effective.
Risks: There are no risks towards participants involved in this project.
Benefits: This study will help allow participates to identify of their feelings better about different situations they have faced throughout their time at college, and assist them to be more aware of beneficial coping methods for stress now and in the future.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my research, along with allowing me to use the results from this research in my inquiry based research paper.
Thank you!
Signature _____________________________________
Date ______
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ReplyDeleteProject: My project is about people’s perceptions of violent video games. I think that with research being done on the subject, almost nothing has been done as far as discussion and focus on how people view the topic. I think that most people who are against violence in video games are those who have never been involved with them and the people who defend them are those who use them often and are more involved with them.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To find information from both sides of the argument and compare what the opinions are of participants from both sides. Comparing these opposing views instead of focusing on one side helps to provide as unbiased results as possible and helps to analyze what the overall public may feel about the topic.
Participant Help: You will be given a survey asking questions that would determine your involvement with video games. There would then be questions that ask you about your perception of violence in video games and analyze your view of violent video games in general, as well as what it is that may cause that view. The end of the survey would ask if you are willing to participate in an open discussion and, if so, there would then be a time scheduled in which participants would meet together to discuss their views and opinions on the matter to help bring out information that may not be possible to learn through a survey.
Risks: There are no risks to participants involved in this research project.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project “Perceptions of Violence in Video Games”, and you agree that I am allowed to use the results in the paper I will be writing on the subject.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Signature:________________________________________
Date:____/_____/_____
James Plyler
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My research into video game narrative will take the form of a textual analysis: I'll be looking at how video game narrative correlates with how narrative structure is defined by Joseph Campbell in his monomyth--the idea of the Hero's Journey. To do this, I'll be looking at two recent video game titles--"Beyond: Two Souls" and "The Last of Us"--and holding their narrative up to what Campbell has defined.
The first step in doing this will be to obtain extensive knowledge of Campbell's monomyth itself, as well as how it has been refined for use in cinema.
I picked the two games that I did not only because they do an amazing job of exemplifying the hero's journey, but also because they are different enough from each other to show the variation in games today; The gameplay in "The Last of Us" makes it a more traditional game in the general publics eyes--you kill people, shoot people, sneak around, build guns, etc.--and yet despite this cliché it still delivers a powerful and engaging story. The gameplay in "Beyond: Two Souls" is highly unique and differs quite substantially from the traditional idea of a game; it is the perfect game to analyze to show how diverse and special games these days can be.
Thus, the next step will be analyzing the aforementioned game titles, and making notes on how they fit into Campbell's idea of the Hero's Journey. To do this I'll replay both titles and take note of how closely their narrative fits the monomyth along with any other noteworthy aspects such as the marriage of gameplay and narrative.
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ReplyDeleteFriendships Across Gender and Sexual Orientation
ReplyDeletePurpose: This study will shed light on what effects gender and sexual orientation have on friendships and will examine how these two categories, in various combinations, cause for different kinds of friendships to arise.
What Will You Do: You will be given a survey to fill out which will ask you how you define your gender and sexual orientation. The survey will contain a series of questions in various formats which will inquire into your friendships, first asking you to define, as best you can, the genders and sexual orientations of your friends. The point is for you to list friends who have different combinations of gender and sexual orientation. The questions will ask you about your feelings and experiences with these friendships. Certain participants will then be selected to take part in a focus group in which we will discuss the results of each member’s survey.
Benefits: This study has the potential to benefit the LGBT+ most out of anyone. Results could lead to findings about discrimination and might help find ways to prevent discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation from occurring by informing people on these issues.
Confidentiality: This study will remain purely confidential, names and contact information will not be reported or used in any way except for direct communication between you and I, should you be selected for the focus group.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project " Friendships Across Gender and Sexual Orientation Humor", and you agree that I am allowed to use your results when explaining my research in a public forum.
Thank you very much!
Signature: __________________________________________
Date:_______________
Project: My project’s goal is to narrow the study on dog people and cat people by trying to determine differences in their intelligence and happiness. My project is also going to attempt to find a correlation between pet owners’ personalities and their pets’/preferred pets’ personalities.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To test the intelligence and happiness of dog people, cat people, both or neither, as well as gather information on their personality and the breed of pets that they own.
Procedure: You will be participating in a survey that has four parts. The first part is a brief test to determine a general intelligence level. The second part will determine your overall satisfaction with life. The third part will determine levels on your positive and negative thoughts. The fourth part will determine your view of your personality and gather information on the breed of your pet/preferred pet if you have one. The first three parts will be analyzed and compared to others. If the fourth part applies, your personality will be compared to your pet’s/preferred pet’s personality.
Risk: There is no risk in participating in this project.
By signing you agree to participate in my study.
Signature__________________________________________
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Thank you for taking your time to participate in my project.
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ReplyDeleteProject:
ReplyDeleteMy project will be a questionnaire for religious people, it will be consisting of questions that have you rate your specific reasons for being religious. These questions are presented in the procedure section.
The purpose:
My goal in this questionnaire is to find out just how devoted you are to your religion, and the reason(s) for being religious. This will help me with my research, as my research focuses on why people are religious and what kind of people are religious. My research paper also attempts to understand how rationality and religion are intertwined, this experiment may lead to some possible discoveries.
Procedure:
Simply rate yourself on the following questions.
Reasons for belief
The morals (1-10)
The religious community (1-10)
The biblical events (1-10)
Family involvement (1-10)
Everything about it (1-10)
Risks:
There are none!
Thank you.
I agree to participate in the "Reasons for belief" questionnaire-Signature:
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Project: To find how children are affected by their multicultural backgrounds. Much research has been conducted for the parents and how they negotiate and how they bring up their children with no role model before them to follow.
ReplyDeletePurpose: Offspring of parents who don’t come from the same cultural background may have ethnic identity confusion, bullying, not fitting, etc. (problems). On the other hand, their multicultural background could benefit them in many ways. So I want to find out if having a multicultural background is beneficial or not, or how much is a positive effect or negative effect.
Procedure: You will be participating in a survey that questioning you of your multicultural background to find people who qualify for my research. Once qualified, I will create focus group and individually interview you.
Risk: There is no risk involved.
Thank you
Signature:______________________
Date: ___________________________
Researcher: Christina Lam
ReplyDeleteChild-Doctor Relationship
Project: My project is focusing on how the improvement of the patient-doctor interaction can positively contribute to a child’s health and wellness.
Purpose: The purpose is to discover if the improvement of the child-doctor interaction will benefit the child’s lifestyles and lead to more avid visits to the doctor’s office.
Procedure: You will be participating in a survey that consists of rating questions, multiple-choice questions and free-response questions that will ask your opinions and perception of your relationship with your doctor now and in the past (as a child).
Risk: There are no risks.
Confidentiality: I may ask for your contact information in order to have a focus group afterwards. None of your information will be disclosed to others and will not be used for any reason after this project.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project “Child-Doctor Relationship” and you are allowing me to use your results in my research paper and for discussion.
Thank you for your time.
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Researcher: Kayla Doerstling
Research Purpose: To look at and figure at how and why football has taken the place of baseball as America’s national pastime.
Project: My project focuses on how football has become more popular than baseball in America. Baseball has been called our national pastime, but it’s obvious that football has become the most popular sport in our country. This project looks at the factors that may have caused this shift, and tries to diagnose why this popularity shift has taken place. I researched many different sources and found four key things that may have contributed to the rise of football. They are broadcasting, the schedules, ratings, and the media. Now I am going to take the information I have found to the fans. I am going to talk to people that are avid fans of both sports – baseball and football. I will tell them what I have found, and then ask them what they think about it. By finding out what they have to say about this whole ordeal, and what has impacted them the most, I should be able to figure out how and why football has become the most popular sport.
Procedure: I am going to tell you the information that I have found from my research so far. I will pitch it to you, ask you a few simple questions, and then just let you run with it. You will be in a group with other baseball and football fans, and you are pretty much just going to share your opinions and feelings about the whole thing. Feel free to talk about whatever you want (within reason). I will be there with you, and it should be a very enjoyable conversation! I will write down the important and helpful things that you guys say, and use it for my project. If there is anything you do not want me to include, make sure you tell me.
Thank you for participating in my project.
I agree to participate in Kayla Doerstling’s project.
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Project: my project is to see how women of two different eras, both before and after title IX feel that title IX has impacted your lives. The project aims at seeing if title IX has in fact done more than what was originally intended.
ReplyDeletePurpose: much has been made of how sports can impact a person’s life yet no research has been done to show how tile IX has impacted the lives of women over time. I have seen a strong similarity between the increasing number of women playing sports and the amount of women in high managerial positions. My study aims to show how title IX not only led to equality in sporting opportunities but has led women to be equals to men in every facet of life.
Procedures: I will first have each of you take a personality test that I will use in order to compare and see if there are any differences between the personalities of women who grew up pre and post title IX. I will then conduct a focus group where I will ask you ladies a series of questions in order to get a sense of how sports has impacted your lives. I will also be looking to see how the women of different era think the word perceives women.
Disclosure: you are able to choose to not be a part of the study at any time. you can choose not to answer any questions that may make you feel uncomfortable for any reason. By signing this letter, you are agreeing to be a part of the study and as well as everything described above.
Signature:____________________________________________
Date:____________________________________________________
Informed Consent
ReplyDeleteResearcher: Michael Keller
Project: my project is to analyze the ethics of the conversation of genetic engineering of animals. Through this survey, information will be collected to more fully analyze the public view of the conversation of the genetic engineering of animals.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain insight of college student’s view of the genetic engineering of animals.
Study: During this study you will be asked to answer questions to analyze your perspectives of this field. You will be asked to rate your agreement with each statement as 1-5 (1 being in complete disagreement and 5 being in complete agreement.) Please read all information preceding the questions.
By signing below, you agree to participate in this survey however if you wish to not have your answers analyzed, you may opt out of this study at any time.
Signature:______________________
Date:__________________________
Project: My project regards student health and wellbeing, as well as the motivation for dietary habits and exercise levels. By sampling a small amount of the student body at UCF, I will attain a new facet to the conversation.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To gain a sample of the college students dietary habits by sampling a small portion of the student body at UCF.
Participant Help: Please answer a small questionnaire regarding your dietary habits since attending college. You will be asked simple questions, such as whether or not you reside on campus, your dietary habits, and your physical health.
Risk: There is no risks involved with this survey. It is a simple questionnaire regarding your dietary habits.
Thank you for participating in this survey.
Signature: ___________
Date:_______________
Stephanie Valdes
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Project: My project is to determine whether or not there is an affect with use of social media sites on college students social interaction. Information gathered from journals and a focus group will be analyzed to see if there is a positive or negative correlation.
Purpose: The use of social media sites has greatly increased over the past couple of years, and creation of new ways to interact with people has decreased the way we interact face to face with people. Society has become numb to the use of technology to interact with one another that we do not realize that we depend on it in our everyday lives. This experiment will help see whether we can still act the same around friends and family without the use of social media and technology to interact. It will also help show how much we depend on social media and technology.
Procedure: You will be participating in a week long experiment where you will willingly give up your phone for three days and not go on any social media sites on any form of technology. You will write in a journal given to you for those three days and explain how you feel about not being able to access social media sites at the palm of your hand, and any other affects that you have. You will receive your phone back and continue to write in the journal for the next three days describing how you feel with the use of the phone again and how you feel being able to access social media sites to interact with family and friends. On the last day you will meet in a focus group and answer questions and discuss with the others how you felt during the experiment.
Risks: There is no risks in this experiment. Your cell phone will be locked in small safe under the care of the researcher and will be given back to you anytime during the experiment if you no longer wish to continue in the experiment. I only ask for your time and honesty throughout the experiment.
Thank You!
By signing, I agree to participate in my project, " No Need For Phones" and agreeing to the use of my results in public form.
Print: _________________________
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Project: My project’s goal is to discuss the different perceptions of CEO compensation for non-profit and for profit CEOs as well as where they come from.
ReplyDeletePurpose: Many CEOs in today’s world are heavily criticized because of the large amounts of money they make each year. Some have been given large amounts of compensation even while their company is on the decline so it is easy to see how this upsets many. At the same time, non-profit organizations are at an extreme disadvantage because they are not able to offer their CEOs nearly as much as for profit companies offer. This causes them to lose out on the opportunity of acquiring top CEOs that could really benefit them and make a huge impact on society. I plan to discover the root of these perceptions of CEOs any why do people have them.
Procedure: I will be surveying you on your perspective of CEO compensation and what you think shapes other people’s perspective. I will record a summary of your answers and include them in my research.
Risk: There are not any risks involved with this project.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project “Perceptions of CEOs” and you are allowing me to use your answers in my research paper.
Thank you for your time.
Date: ______________________
Signature: ______________________
Project: My project focuses on the effectiveness of environmental rhetoric. More specifically, I seek to discover the most effective environmental rhetoric for students. I hope to influence rhetors with my discoveries.
ReplyDeletePurpose: The environment has always influenced the world, though it wasn't until recently when various problems began to affect society in addition to the environment. As more and more of the environment is destroyed, more severe, disastrous consequence will result. It is because of this that many different people have formed various movements in order to prevent further destruction. In order to persuade various audiences to take action for the movement, authors use various rhetorical strategies. It is here that I realized the lack of hard evidence of what environmental rhetoric best persuades students to become activists. I intend to discover what rhetoric is most effective for students. With this information, I also hope to see more activists for the environmental movements.
Procedure: You will be participating in a focus group along with several other students. I will first show each of you various articles or images and ask that you rate their effectiveness. I will then ask you all to discuss why you each believed each article and image was effective or not. Everything will be recorded. I ask that you remain respectful and honest throughout the duration of the focus group.
Risks: There are no risks in this focus group outside of the uncontrollable elements.
Thank you!
By signing this document, I agree to participate in the focus group and allow my participation to be made public.
Signature:____________________________________________________-
Date:_________________________
Project: My project aims to analyze how the rhetoric of the steroid debate has changed over time, specifically looking at time periods of five years at a time. With hopes of finding specific incidents which strictly shape the conversational piece.
ReplyDeletePurpose: It is already clear that in todays society, steroids maintain a negative rhetoric, especially in the worlds of sports. This experiment aims to find at which point does this conversation shift from the original purpose of steroids, to today's overall negative appeal. In order to do this properly, specific opinions throughout the time periods should be analyzed, finding a total representation of the time period, then comparing already established events to see how specific events have shaped this conversation. With this we can determine how specific events have shaped the overall conversation.
Procedure: The overall study will be a compilation of surveys forming a mass of data covering all designated time frames. Each Participant will fill out an anonymous survey, compiled of questions to determine the overall viewpoint the subject has on the steroid debate. Also the surveys will be taken by athletes and athletes alike to show accurate coverage of subject bias. Through a survey of roughly 15 questions subjects such as gender, athletic history, age, and familiarity with the conversation will be covered.
Risk: There are no risk involved with this experiment
By signing this document I recognize that my identity will remain anonymous, allowing the results to be used for educational purposes.
Signature______________________________________________________
Date__________________________________________________________
Consent to Participate in Survey and Possible Focus Group
ReplyDeleteProject: To assess the general opinion of the Catholic Churches response to current social issues.
Purpose: We are the new generation. The Church has survived through countless changes, however, what is the consensus of the Church’s current situation?
Participant Responsibilities: Initially you will be asked to fill out a simple survey. This survey will act as a filter to identify the best candidates for a focus group. If you are found to be an ideal candidate for the focus group you will be contacted and another consent form will be disbursed to accommodate the focus group. If you are not selected for the focus group, your data will never be released.
I have read this consent form in its entirety and understand the responsibilities of participating in this survey.
Participant’s Email: _____________________
Participant’s Name (Printed): _____________________
Participant’s Signature: ____________________
Date: ____________
Consent to participate in Focus Group
Project: To assess the general opinion of the Catholic Churches response to current social issues.
Purpose: We are the new generation. The Church has survived through countless changes, however, what is the consensus of the Church’s current situation?
Participant Responsibilities: Participation is voluntary. Participation will a few meetings ranging from 30-60 minutes of your time, collaborating with others. Specific dates will be determined by all participants schedule. There will be readings that the group will read as a whole during these meetings. You will need to maintain a respectful demeanor while voicing your opinion and cooperate with the group. You, as the subject have the option to remain anonymous in publicized findings or any presentations.
I grant permission to use the following (Please check One):
__ My First Name
__ My Full Name
__ A pseudonym to remain anonymous
I have read this consent form in its entirety and understand the responsibilities of participating in this focus group.
Participant’s Email: _____________________
Participant’s Name (Printed): _____________________
Participant’s Signature: ____________________
Date: ____________
Informed Consent
ReplyDeleteResearcher: Audrey Gaines
Introduction: This project will research the different motives behind what college students eat. The results from this survey will help to inform college cafeterias and food companies on how to improve the nutrition of students.
Purpose: To get an in-depth look at the motives behind food choices that students make.
Participants: In order to participate in this study, you must be a college student.
Procedure: You will be asked to answer a series of questions in a survey. Your honesty is greatly appreciated and you may feel free to ask questions at any given time.
Risks: There are no risks involved in this survey.
By signing this document, I give my consent for my participation to be used in an academic research paper.
Participant’s Signature: _______________________________ Date:____________
Kyle Gonzalez
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Project: Television has captured much of our attention and time since it became popular in the 20th century, but has also taken much of our sleep time as studies have shown.
Purpose: Most of the studies already performed are based on children and/or outside the United States. This project is to collect data from young adults in America and see how much their sleep patterns are affected by television today.
Procedure: The entire procedure will take two weeks exactly. You will be given a survey for each day of the week (should take less than 10 minutes). For the first week there will be absolutely no restrictions. Live and act the way you normally would. The second week you will have to restrict yourself from a television screen past 8:00PM each night. The survey for each day will ask for things like: presleep activities (anything past 8:00PM), time spent on each activity, time of sleep onset, did you wake up at all during the night, if so how many times and about when, final wake up time, and an estimated scale of tiredness throughout the day (scale 1-10).
Risks: none. That is up to you to decide what you replace your television time with!
Thank you!
By signing this document, I agree to participate in the survey and allow my participation to be made public.
Signature:____________________________________________________-
Date:_________________________
VIVIENNE DO
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Researcher: Vivienne Do
Project:
My research is to go deeply investigate a vegan diet. More specifically, to determine common trends when transitioning from an omnivore diet to a vegan diet. Trends such as: nutritional values, food choice/value, food craving and food intolerance. I would like to discover if there’s a significant difference between an omnivore’ diet vs. a vegan’s diet. Which vitamin/minerals do vegans tend to lack of? Which area of nutrition values do they exceed? I also have a theory that vegans have a broader food plate compared to a typical American. My test students will be limited to College students, white females age 18-20. What are the common food cravings associated when transitioning from omnivore -> vegans?
Purpose:
The purpose of my research is to test theories that I have about the vegan diet. It is also to help build awareness of veganism and the overall benefits it can bring to one’s lifestyle. Hopefully, it will also deviate the idea that ‘’vegans’’ are animal-lovers, rather- fully capable of understanding the nutritional values of the human body.
Human study help:
You will be participating in various surveys to help accommodate validity to my study. You may be asked to be in a focus group for further questioning. There will be one survey inquiring about the knowledge vegan has on certain food choice, the same survey will be presented on an American college student. The next test will have a group A (vegans) test various ingredients and be asked if they can identify the items. Same will be done with group B (omnivores.) Finally, if you asked to participate in a focus group, you will be asked about your transitioning stage- what food cravings did you have to overcome? (Out of dairy, meat and animal-by products) Did you mood change? How was days did it take for your body to adjust? Also, did you develop any food allergies along the process?
Risk: There are no risk presented in this study. You must agree that you are not allergy to any of the common food samples I will have to test.
By signing below, you agree to take part of ‘’Exploration Veganism.’’ You also agree that the information you provide will be used in a public viewing paper.
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Project: My project is about the values of different audiences of anime and how it has influenced the development of anime.
ReplyDeletePurpose: The purpose of this project is to find out how anime has changed over the years based on what people like and what they value out of anime. This would also help explain how successful anime is as a commodity, and its pattern of development so we can predict what the medium will be like in the future.
Procedure: My method for conducting this study is rather simple; I only wish to interview you and ask a few simple questions about the type of anime that you like, and what you value out of it.
Risks: There will be no risks involved in this interview.
By signing this document, I agree to participate in this study, and allow what I say in this interview to be made public.
Signature:__________________________________________________
Date:_______________________
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ReplyDeleteProject: Attempting to identify the risks both physically and mentally that accompany cutting weight, multiple times over an extended period of time.
ReplyDeletePurpose: To shed light, especially to both parents and youth on the risks that one faces when intentionally starving, dehydrating, or over training their body.Hopefully with the risks more apparent and known it will discourage athletes from making huge cuts quickly and manage their weight better.
Procedure: A questionnaire to be filled out biweekly asking the same questions for a month.
Risks: There are no risks, this will not ask you to cut any weight this questionnaire is just asking if you cut weight, how you cut weight, when you cut it, and then questions about your health and mental state, like stress.
By signing this document, you agree to participate in the questionnaire, no names shall be revealed, however your answers and responses will become public.
Signature:______________________________________________________
Date:__________________________
Project: My project focuses on the implementation of the current administration and the public view of it. The target audience is mainly college students though it is not limited to this category.
ReplyDeletePurpose: the purpose of this research survey is to determine where college students typically stand on certain topics and if it differs greatly from older age groups.
Method: This research will be conducted by means of a simple and relatively short survey that remains completely anonymous (unless the participant specifically notes otherwise on the survey), which will contained a mixture of yes/no questions as well as degree based questions on the current administrations implementation of specific programs.
By signing this document, I agree to participate in the survey and allow my answers and results to be publicized.
Signature ____________________
Date __________
Forgot the risks section:
DeleteRisks: There are no risks involved in taking this survey.
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Researcher: Alfredo Jaime Vega
Project: This research explores the effect that external circumstances create for a person that might influence their likeliness to engage in substance abuse. Examples of these developmental pillars are as followed: parenting style, peer-influence, current state of academics, etc. Along with social correlations, my research also explores the effects substance abuse has on education and if the actual substance abuse actually holds any fault in regards to a drop in academic performance.
Purpose: The purpose is to better understand individuals and how their substance abuse drive is created by external circumstances over the development of their lives, and also better understand drugs' consequence to academic standing. To find a general pattern to drug use and academic decline, then determine if poor grades can be attributed solely to the drug or levels of motivation created over time by social development which varies person by person.
Procedure: Within this survey you will encounter general questions such as age, gender, before it evolves into general probing into (that are not limited to): domestic life history, list of drugs used, frequency of drug use, an overview of academic performance (GPA and typical letter grade), etc.
Risk: None at all, all personal research inquiry responses will be anonymized for calculation and then destroyed permanently. This survey will contain multiple choice questions with a few fill in fields. After all data is collected and processed, all raw data will be destroyed accordingly. Responses are also anonymized by changing names into randomly assigned numbers after receipt.
By singing this document below you agree to divulge information towards my research, you also grant permission for me, as the researcher, to use any divulged information as data for my personal research.
Your time would be very much appreciated!
Signature: _______________________________
Date: __________________________________
Sarah Mucklai
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Researcher: Sarah Mucklai
Project: Examination into whether beauty contests display a positive or negative portrayal of women
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine others views upon these contests, and see whether they are truly hurting women’s image in society rather than promoting them positively.
Participant Help: You will be presented with a variety of words in which you must judge on a scale of 1-10 according to their relevance to these beauty pageants.
Risks: There is no risk involved.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project "Beauty Pageants: The Negative Portrayals of Women", and agree that I am able to use any of the results found in my research paper.
Thank you for your participation!
Sarah Mucklai
Signature: _______________________________
Date: __________________________________
Researcher: Rachel Tyler
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Project: Exploring how to framing and rhetoric of different media outlets has affected the view of gay rights for various demographics.
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine these rhetorical strategies and their affect on the individual's opinion and view toward gay rights, and how this rhetoric can account for the change in public opinion toward gay rights in the past, and the continual change to come in the future.
Method: This research will involve individual subjects being shown a variety of media clips, and taking a survey in order to express their viewpoint and feelings the moments after the media is shown to them. There will then be a focus group held, which will discuss the overall affect of these different outlets of media on their opinion of gay rights.
Risk: There in no risk involved, though you may be subject to your own social beliefs being challenged and may lead to offense. This is in no way intended to favor one opinion or another, but rather to explore the rhetoric of the gay rights movement and its effectiveness.
By signing this consent form you are agreeing to fully participate in the study, including the focus group which may be time consuming. You are also agreeing to freely express your feelings and viewpoints in an educational and professional manner and not in an offensive manner.
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Tyler Peter
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Project: Researching why new forms of transportation take so long from concept to reality.
Purpose: To find out what it is that hinders transportation research so that, later on, transportation researches will know how to be more effective.
Procedure: You will be asked to answer a few questions on the attached, two part survey. These questions will be based on your own opinion of transportation as a whole and specific modes. After the survey is taken a focus group will be put together to the discuss, as a group, some of the issue that may be facing transportation research.
Risk: The risk of this is very minimal, your opinions will be shared while in the focus group but your survey can remain anonymous if you so wish.
By signing this document you agree to participate in my project “the issues facing transportation research ", and you agree that I am allowed to use your results when explaining my research in a public forum.
Thank you very much!
Signature: __________________________________________
Date:_______________
Title of Project
ReplyDeleteStudy on educational and informational television
Purpose of Study
Education is the most important aspect of our society today. Television has been involved with education for over fifty years. Though most people would argue that television is bad for you, there have been many studies to show otherwise. This is not the point of my study though. My study will compare interviews and opinions from children with college-aged students regarding educational television. The idea is to see effectiveness of educational television regulations made in the 1990’s and see if they are still doing well today.
Procedures
In an open forum, there will discussion about two educational and informational shows, one from the 1990’s and one from today. There will also be a small survey given. This will be done for both focus groups.
Discomforts and Risks
There are no physical or psychological risks associated with this study. No harm will come to anyone.
Benefits
The ability to discuss openly opinions about educational and informational television shows and participating in something interesting.
Time of Study
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Statement of Privacy
Your identity will remain completely anonymous, no actual names will be used in the reports of this study. Reports for the study will be used solely for the study and will not be given out to anyone at any time.
Right to ask questions
If you have any questions about the study or wish you information to be removed from the study, please contact…
Researchers: Gemini Martin
ReplyDeleteProject: The project will be made up of a questionnaire that explores the way the fashion industry affects body image. The questionnaire will cover generalized questions about the
Purpose: The purpose of the research to explore the ways that the fashion industry is effecting the body image in society. The fashion industry has been affecting. Body image is a subject that needs to be explored more often. It has been effecting men and women for awhile, and the subject has not be explored as thoroughly as possible. The project will be exploring the fashion industry's indirect and direct ways they affect emotional, physical and mental aspects of people.
Procedure: A focus group will be set up with people varying from ages 17-27. There will be a questionnaire covering questions covering grounds that focus around advertisements from two magazines from each study group. There will be three study groups; men, women and teens. There will be two magazines per group and two advertisements per magazine. The questions will cover the
Risks: Some of the questions. Isn't be personal, however there is no actual harm to the participants in the project.
By signing this waiver, you are giving full consent to use your information as a part of a research oriented paper. The research conducted will be anonymously covered and no personal names will be revealed in the writing of the paper.
Signature:_____________________ Date:________________
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