IRB assignment

Because this assignment is designed to focus on ethical review for methods that have already been worked out and approved, and to provide you all with a guideline for the types of studies and designs that you might consider for your own project, you are being asked to use a completed research project as the basis for this assignment.  You may choose one of the following five options on which to base your IRB proposal.  Remember that you do not need to include the full methods proposal but do need to prepare an informed consent form.

UML Master's theses available in Grad Office and O'Leary Library

• Craig, L. (2002).  Assessment of campus climate for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

• Duffy, C.  (2001). Media, body image, and envisioned futures for a racially/ethnically diverse group of girls.

• Milewski, T.M.H. (2000).  Beliefs about children in foster care.

Published studies:

• Castro, J.R. & Rice, K.G. (2003).  Perfectionism and Ethnicity: Implications for Depressive Symptoms and Self-Reported Academic Achievement. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 9, 1099-9809.

• Tenenbaum, H. R. & Leaper, C. (2003).  Parent-child conversations about science: The socialization of gender inequities? Developmental Psychology,  39, 34-47.