EXPERIENCES OF VKP PARTICIPANTS WITH THE IRB:

Please note: Institutional Review Board protocols vary between institutions. Information and forms are provided only for reference.

In this conversation about Institutional Review Boards (for human subject research) and the work of the Visible Knowledge Project, Patricia O'Connor (Georgetown University), Sherry Linkon (Youngstown State University), Betsi Stephen (Georgetown University), and Melinda L. de Jesús (Arizona State University) reflect on some of the emergent issues for faculty engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).

• Introduction -- Patricia E. O'Connor
  Introduction to the Institutional Review Boards and the Work of the VKP: Some issues to consider
  
  

• Experience 1 -- Sherry Linkon
  Linkon finds the IRB process actually helped the planning of her research.
  
  

• Experience 2 -- Betsi Stephen
  As a VKP project, Stephen's research received exemption.
  
  

• Experience 3 -- Melinda L. de Jesús
  IRB approval required fitting the SoTL with social science methodology.

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