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Institutional Review Board (IRB): Research with Adults

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Research with Adults

If you are doing human subjects research with adults (people who are age 18+), you will prepare the following materials for your IRB application:

  1. CITI Certificate
  2. Eligibility Criteria
  3. Recruitment Materials
  4. Consent Material
  5. Data collection instruments. If your study will have an online survey or questionnaire, please see our additional requirements and resources for setting up online surveys or questionnaires.

Research with Adults in Normal Educational Settings

If you are conducting human subjects research with adults (age 18 and older), and your research encompasses normal education activities in everyday educational settings, you will prepare the following materials:

  1. CITI Certificate
  2. Eligibility Criteria
  3. Information Letter
  4. Data collection instruments