Teaching · For Teachers

Walk into IRB review with nothing missing.

Describe who takes part, what you collect and the risk. The organizer suggests the review path to raise with your IRB and lists the permissions and documents it will expect.

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The IRB preparation

One record per study. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A review path to discuss, the permissions for minors, FERPA and PPRA points, and the documents still to finish.
Who it is for
Teacher-researchers, graduate students in education, district evaluators and school leaders.
Format
Browser form. One saved record per study; printed for your IRB office or faculty sponsor, or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
protocol, permission, approval
Drawn for this page. Most delays in school research come from a missing permission form, not from the study design.

How to use it

  1. Mark who takes part and what you collect.
  2. Decide honestly whether the study stays within normal educational practice.
  3. Check the protected survey topics and your funding.
  4. Work through the documents.
  5. Take the summary to your IRB office and district research office.

Prepare a study

The rules behind it

The Common Rule

45 CFR 46 sets three review levels: exempt (46.104), expedited (46.110) and convened board. For children, Subpart D adds parent permission and assent, and limits the survey and interview exemption.

Schools have their own rules

FERPA governs student records and PPRA governs surveys on eight protected topics. Many districts also run their own research approval before any IRB decision.

What this is not

An IRB determination. Only your IRB can say a study is exempt.

Sources

  1. Protection of Human Subjects, 45 CFR Part 46 (revised Common Rule, 2018), including 46.104, 46.110 and Subpart D (46.401–46.409).
  2. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99, including 99.31(a)(6) on studies for educational agencies.
  3. Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, 20 U.S.C. 1232h, and 34 CFR Part 98.
  4. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections: Exempt Research Determination and Research with Children FAQs.

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