Exempt Research Proposal

Exempt Research Proposal

See Peru State College IRB Policy on Exempt Research
i. Research, conducted in established or commonly accepted educational settings that specifically involves normal educational practices that are not likely to adversely impact students' opportunity to learn required educational content or the assessment of educators who provide instruction.
ii. Research that only includes interactions involving educational tests (cognitive, diagnostic, aptitude, achievement), survey procedures, interview procedures, or observation of public behavior (including visual or auditory recording)
iii. Research involving benign behavioral interventions in conjunction with the collection of information from an adult subject through verbal or written responses (including data entry) or audiovisual recording. [Benign behavioral interventions are brief in duration, harmless, painless, not physically invasive, not likely to have a significant adverse lasting impact on the subjects, and the investigator has no reason to think the subjects will find the interventions offensive or embarrassing]
iv. Research uses of identifiable private information (that has been collected for some other activity, such as from research studies other than the proposed research study), if (1) the identifiable private information is publicly available; or (2) the information is recorded by the investigator in such a manner that the identity of the human subjects cannot readily be ascertained
v. Research and demonstration projects that are conducted or supported by a Federal department or agency and are designed to study, evaluate, improve, or otherwise examine public benefit or service programs.
vi. Taste and food quality evaluation and consumer acceptance studies.
vii. Storage or maintenance for secondary research for which broad consent is required: Storage or maintenance of identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens for potential secondary research use if an IRB conducts a limited IRB review and makes the determinations
viii. Secondary research for which broad consent is required: Research involving the use of identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens for secondary research use, if the following criteria are met.