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Application to the DRC and IRB is made through the IRBaccess application the UTRMS-IRB application process. Under Step 2, #3, enter the EDP Graduate Advisor's EID (you can look up EIDs in the UT Directory) as Department Review Chair. For #4, enter the EDP Subject Pool Coordinator's EID as the Research Assistant/Project Coordinator.
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* Graduate student researchers must have a faculty sponsor for their research. If your study is part of your dissertation, you need the sponsorship of your committee supervisor, and you must have successfully completed your dissertation proposal meeting. Your request for subjects will be delayed or rejected for the semester if you fail to meet these requirements.
Deadlines, Spring 2023
January 17-25August 21-September 1, 2023 - Informational session for researchers will be held one-on-one as requested. We strongly encourage new researchers to attend this session about using the management system and creating your study in the system. The Subject Pool Coordinator will send out an email with a confirmed date and time shortly after the start of the semester.
January 27September 3, 2023 - Subject Pool Study Proposal Submission form due by 5pmmidnight.
February 6September 11, 2023 - Study opening date for IRB-approved studies. Studies may also open after this date.
April 10November 13, 2023 - Study closing date for all EDP Subject Pool studies. Studies close at midnight that evening. You may close your study earlier, but this is the last possible day to run participants.
April 14November 17, 2023 - Finalized study credits are due from all researchers.
April 24December 4, 2023 - End of semester; last class day.
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- You must provide ample opportunities for students to complete the study (i.e., sufficient numbers of sign-up times at convenient hours and locations). Class time cannot be used to conduct the research.
- All research must be completed three weeks before the last day of class. The Subject Pool Coordinator will provide specific deadlines each semester.
- Record attendance in your online roster. You will be required to provide it to the Subject Pool Coordinator at the end of the study and no later than three weeks prior to the last day of classes.
- You should provide feedback - oral or written, preferably after each session - so students can have a better understanding of and appreciation for research in educational psychology.
The Office of Research Support and Compliance has a list of Responsibilities of Principle Investigators which should also be followed.
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- By completing the registration process the subject is agreeing to participate in a research study rather than doing the alternative assignment as their way to meet the research requirement.
- However, this does not commit the subject to participate in the study that is assigned to them.
- At the time the study is conducted, the subject will be given a consent form that describes the nature of the study.
- The subject may decline to participate in the particular study upon reading this form if they choose.
- In addition, once the study is underway, the subject has the right to cease participation in the study at any time without penalty should they feel uncomfortable with the study's procedures.