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- From: DLP@psuvm.psu.edu (David L. Passmore)
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- Subject: Human Subjects Protection
- Message-ID: <92244.135445DLP@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:54:45 GMT
- Organization: Penn State University
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- PROTECTING SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
-
- A Workshop Sponsored By The Northeastern Educational Research
- AssociationIn Conjunction With Its Annual Meeting, October 21-23, 1992
-
- October 21, 1992
- 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
-
- Nevele Hotel
- Ellenville, NY
- (Travel directions will be sent to registrants)
-
- WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
- Research training emphasizes technical mastery over the content of research
- and the methods for conducting it. In spite of its technical nature, though,
- research is still a human act that imposes burdens and yields benefits for
- researchers as well as human subjects of research. The ethical glue that
- binds subjects to researchers is the belief that researchers will protect
- subjects from harm.
-
- Standards for protecting human research subjects from harm have been
- explicated and codified in statements ranging from the "Nuremburg Code" to
- "The Belmont Report" and in such federal legislation as the National
- Research Act of 1974. Recent federal requirements for monitoring misconduct
- in science have increased attention to ethical issues and practices for
- protecting human research subjects.
-
- Most of the discussion and examples dealing with implementing principles
- and practices for protection of human research subjects have focused on
- biomedical research. Educational researchers, particularly researchers
- conducting school-based research, have had difficulty translating practices
- designed for biomedical research to their research settings. Moreover, some
- educational researchers feel that procedures for protecting human subjects
- apply only in biomedical settings. As a result, non-compliance by educational
- researchers with federal regulations for protection of human subjects is
- prevalent.
-
- This workshop is designed to develop knowledge and skills in implementing
- principles and practices for protecting human subjects of educational
- research. In addition, participants will receive materials for training others
- in protecting subjects of educational research. This workshop is appropriate
- for graduate students and their mentors as well as educational researchers.
-
- WHAT WILL YOU DO?
- First, you will view and discuss a video produced by the U.S. Public Health
- Service that outlines principles and practices for human subject protection.
- Second, you will listen to and discuss a model slide-based presentation which
- is designed to teach these same principles and practices. Third, you will
- discuss case studies of especially difficult applications of these principles
- and
- practices in educational research settings. One short break will occur.
-
- WHAT WILL YOU RECEIVE?
- Because one aim for the workshop is to provide knowledge and skills
- necessary to train others, each participant will receive two products. First,
- each participant will receive copies of the 35 mm slides used in the model
- presentation. Second, each participant will receive a document containing (a)
- camera-ready copy and reproduction release for a background paper
- describing ethical principles and practices in human subjects protection, (b)
- transparency masters containing the same information contained on 35 mm
- slides, (c) camera-ready copy and reproduction release for a description of
- case studies used in workshop discussions, and (d) a bibliography of literature
- on human subjects protection. These products are provided with the
- registration fee.
-
- WHO WILL CONDUCT THE WORKSHOP?
- The workshop leader is David Passmore, who was University Directors of
- Penn State's Office for the Protection of Human Subjects for four years.
- Passmore has managed the review and approval of over 8,000 proposals for
- use of human beings in research. He has actively participated in professional
- development workshops pertaining to human subjects protection organized
- by the National Institutes for Health and PRIMR (Physicians for
- Responsibility in Medical Research) and presented an invited review of
- literature, "Ethical Uses of Human Research Subjects," at the 1991 NERA
- meeting.
-
- HOW DO YOU REGISTER?
- Send a check or a money order made out to "NERA" for $25 for NERA
- members or $35 for non-members to David Passmore, 109G Rackley
- Building, University Park, PA 16802-3202. by no later than October 12.
- NERA reserves the right to cancel this workshop and return paid registration
- fees if there is insufficient enrollment.
-
- For more information contact: David Passmore (phone: 814/863-2583; e-mail:
- dlp@psuvm.psu.edu)
-