IRB issue

[Aleka Blackwell]

Dear Sarita,


I serve on my university's IRB, and we usually provide approval pending 
receipt of the permission letter(s) and then upon receipt of the 
letter(s), our Compliance Officer or the IRB chair acknowledge receipt 
of the letter(s) in writing (usually within a day or two). 
 Investigators are allowed to start research at schools from which they 
have obtained permission already (after IRB approval) even if they are 
waiting to hear back from other schools.  One thing to note is that we 
require permission from the Superintendent of the school district and 
the principal of each school to prevent any arguments between the two.


Best,
Aleka Blackwell

-- 
Aleka A. Blackwell
Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, P.O. Box 70
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
(615) 898-5960





Sarita Eisenberg wrote:
> The IRB at my university withheld approval for a project - which
> involves collecting conversational samples, narratives, and
> expositions from school-age children - because I did not have prior
> approval from specific schools for recruitment and on-site data
> collection. I appealed this and the IRB has now amended their review -
> the IRB will grant me permission to see participants on-campus. In
> order to see participants at their schools, I must submit an amendment
> to the research protocol to add a school as a participating site once
> I have obtained approval from that particular school. Assuming that
> any such amendment would have an expedited review, I would receive the
> okay from IRB 3 weeks after submitting the amendment.
> This strikes me as a needless complication and delay and I wondered
> what the IRB policy about this is at other institutions.
> Sarita Eisenberg
> >
>   














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