Stu, Stu, Studio

It was good to be reminded that research with human subjects can not be taken lightly - this was illustrated with examples from the past in the first module. We needed to be exposed to the regulations of the IRB because I was personally assuming that most of our research would be self proclaimed exempt from the review, and this is not the case because even an exemption must be reviewed. We need to be aware of what steps are necessary in order to maintain ethical research as well as who to contact and what type of review is necessary for each step of the way. I know that I was thinking about doing observations in the classroom and previously did not even think about the risk of breaching a subjects privacy. it is important to understand the potential consequences of what we are planning on doing with this project. Once we understand them, we can avoid violating research ethics that we might not have even thought about prior to the citi program.