https://padlet.com/usictech/mji3voatdg0uz5rx Instructions Imagine you have been assigned the task of sitting on an Institutional review board (IRB) and have been asked to consider the following research proposals. Each proposal involves ethical issues. Read each proposal and answer the questions below. Proposal 1: Priya is interested in whether listening to music while working out makes people exercise harder. She plans to ask college students to come to the gym and run on a treadmill for half an hour either while listening to music or in silence. The dependent measure will be the number of miles run in that time period. Questions: What additional information might you want to know about the study in order to decide whether or not it should be approved? What are the benefits that might result from this research? What are the potential harms? If you were on an IRB reviewing this proposal, what would your recommendation be? Proposal 2: Tyrone wants to study the impact of watching sexually suggestive/explicit television on people’s attitudes toward sex. He plans to test ninth graders because he believes they are still young enough to be highly impressionable. He will solicit volunteers to come after school. Half will be assigned to watch one hour of sexually explicit clips from a cable TV show while the other half will view an hour of clips from the same show that deal with nonsexual topics. After watching the TV shows, all participants will fill out a questionnaire about the attitudes toward sex. Questions: What additional information might you want to know about the study in order to decide whether or not it should be approved? What are the benefits that might result from this research? What are the potential harms? If you were on an IRB reviewing this proposal, what would your recommendation be? Proposal 3: Charlotte wants to research the effect of labelling students (gifted vs. struggling) on their achievement in second grade. She proposes that students in an elementary school’s second grade be divided into reading groups in which ability levels (as determined by previous test scores) are evenly mixed. One group will be told they are gifted readers, another group will be told that they are struggling readers, and a third group will be told nothing at all. Charlotte theorizes that by the end of the second-grade year, the students in the “gifted” level group will outperform those in the “struggling” group on the same reading test. Questions: What additional information might you want to know about the study in order to decide whether or not it should be approved? What are the benefits that might result from this research? What are the potential harms? If you were on an IRB reviewing this proposal, what would your recommendation be? en-us 2021-11-25 13:24:24 UTC 2025-09-29 12:58:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/usictech/mji3voatdg0uz5rx/wish/1912651757 1. Additional information that should be included is whether or not the parents consent to this and how this will psychologically affect the children in the future especially the children in the "struggling" students. How will they cope afterwards? Will this enforce insecurity in these poor children? 
2. Benefits: Parents, teachers and guardians will realize the power their words have on these children whether they praise them or downgrade them it affects the child's performance. This can promote healthy parenting and teaching habbits that bring the childs confidence up and allows them to improve and encourage motivation. Also, this will allow parents to pay more attention to the cultivation of their children instead of just using Talent determines the abilities of a child.
Harms: Unfortunately there are many harmful outcomes to this research that might out weigh the benefits. Seeing as this research is aimed to see how powerful words can be in the performance and confidence of children. It is quite ironic and contradictory that they have to ruin childrens self esteem by putting them and labeling them as the "struggling" group. This can affect the childs future reading abilities and can enforce insecure thoughts that can stay with them all throughout their life. Children soak in the words people say to them. They are at a very critical age when it comes to learning and developing a personality so destroying it doesn't seem fair.
3. If we are trying to give recommendations to this group we could suggest that they give their parents consent forms before conducting this research however we agree as a group that this research is unethical as it can potentially harm the children. ]]> 2021-11-25 13:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/mji3voatdg0uz5rx/wish/1912651757