Teaching · For Teachers

Recruit so that no one feels they had to say yes.

Describe who you will invite and how, then check permission, assent and the safeguards that keep it voluntary, especially when you are also their teacher. The summary lists what is missing and the questions a review board will raise.

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The recruitment check

One record per study. No participant information is kept. The example is made up.

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What you get

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What you finish with
For each study, the recruitment plan, every permission and voluntariness safeguard marked, incentives and protected topics, and a list of the questions a review board is likely to ask.
Who it is for
Teachers doing action research or graduate studies, district research offices reviewing requests, and administrators who approve research in their schools.
Format
Browser checklist. Several saved studies; printed with the summary to attach to an application, or as a blank checklist; CSV with one row per study; export and import a file.
Access
$5 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.
yes and no go in the same box
Drawn for this page. When the researcher is also the teacher, someone else collects every form, yes or no, so no one knows who declined.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with a study code and the date.
  2. Describe who will be invited, how, and your relationship to them.
  3. For students under 18, mark permission and assent.
  4. Mark each safeguard and describe any incentive.
  5. Check the protected topics and funding, then read the questions before you submit.

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What the check is for

Why recruitment matters

Consent is only meaningful when saying no is safe. Students may feel they must agree when the researcher is their teacher, and a class reward can pressure the few who would rather not. Federal rules for research with children add parent permission and the child’s own assent, with limited exceptions a review board can grant.

Protected topics

The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment lists eight topics: political affiliations or beliefs; mental or psychological problems; sex behavior or attitudes; illegal, antisocial, self-incriminating or demeaning behavior; critical appraisals of close family members; legally privileged relationships; religious practices or beliefs; and income. Surveys on them in Department of Education funded programs need prior written parent consent; otherwise districts must notify families and let them opt out.

What this checklist is not

It is not an ethics review and does not approve a study. Your review board, university and district decide what the study requires, and state law may add rules.

Sources

  1. Protection of Human Subjects, 45 CFR Part 46, including Subpart D (additional protections for children: permission and assent) and 34 CFR Part 97 (Department of Education adoption).
  2. Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, 20 U.S.C. 1232h, and 34 CFR Part 98 (the eight protected topics; consent and notice requirements).
  3. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 34 CFR Part 99.
  4. The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (1979), respect for persons and voluntariness.
  5. American Educational Research Association, Code of Ethics (2011).

The example study is made up. The checklist prepares a study for review; it does not approve it. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.