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STEP
THREE
UNDERSTANDING
THE LEGALITIES OF CONDUCTING EVALUATIONS FOR ADULT AND YOUTH PROGRAMS
The
WSU Institutional Review Board (IRB) is required by law to review
all research and evaluations conducted by university personnel
who use human subjects. In other words, whenever we ask people
to be involved in our evaluations we need to have the evaluation
procedures and surveys, interviews, etc., approved by the IRB.
This is to assure that people are not being asked inappropriate
questions and that the process is ethical. It is also there to
protect you and your program in the event that someone doesn't
like some part of the evaluation.
The
WSU Cooperative Extension Life Skills Evaluation has been approved
by the WSU IRB. The approval included the following requirements
that MUST
BE FOLLOWED:
- The
Notice of Passive Consent
(below) must
be sent to all parents whose youth
may
be asked to participate in the evaluation of your program. We
suggest that you send a copy of this notice along with your
program materials when youth enter your program. You only need
to give the notice to parents once a year. It is then their
responsibility to contact you if they do not want their child
to participate in the evaluation. If you do not hear from the
parents, then their son or daughter can participate, if the
youth so desires.
- The
paragraph at the top of the customized evaluation form explains
the participants' rights in completing the evaluation. This
information must remain on your evaluation form. You need to read it with the participants (both youth
and adult) who will be completing the evaluation.
- If
you want to add any of your own indicators
to the Life Skills Evaluation and there is any chance that the results would be published, even in the
local newspaper, you must submit them to Mary Katherine Deen at mdeen@wsu.edu so they can be sent to the WSU IRB for approval. Dr. Deen
will be submitting additional indicators on a monthly basis;
therefore, have additional indicators to her by the first of
the month. Allow at least three weeks before you need the evaluation
to have the indicators approved.
WRITTEN
NOTICE OF PASSIVE CONSENT (for youth participants):
As
a participant in the (name of the program) your son or
daughter may be asked to help with the evaluation of the program.
At the end of each program or program year, we conduct an evaluation
to tell us how well the program is working. Your son or daughter
may be asked to complete a written survey about what he/she may
have learned from participating in the program. We estimate that
it will take the youth participants approximately 10 minutes to
complete the survey.
Youth
are not required to participate in the evaluation. If your son
or daughter decides that they do not wish to participate, it will
not affect their participation in this or future WSU Cooperative
Extension programs. If your son or daughter does not want to answer
some questions on the survey, that is okay. The survey responses
will be anonymous, and your son's or daughter's responses will
not be identified in any way.
If
you do not want your son or daughter to participate in the evaluation
of (name of program), please contact (name of local
program staff member) at (contact information) before
your child begins attending the program. If you have any questions
about the evaluation, you can contact Dr. Mary Katherine Deen
at (509) 662-4730 or the Washington State University Institutional
Review Board at (509) 335-9661.
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