I agree that if your IRB has evaluated your criteria, and they meet
all the APA guidelines for ethics, then the requirement seems valid.
Just an opinion--based on some evidence
annette
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Jim Couch wrote:
>
> For reasons that it is not necessary to go into in this forum, there has
> been some discussion in our department about whether students participating
> in a subject pool is ethical. Our subject pool requires that students
> complete EITHER three one-hour experiments or read some material and turn in
> a one-page summary of the material. One faculty member, who teaches a
> course where this requirement would be in place, contends that having
> subjects participate in research, even with the alternative, is not ethical.
> The subject pool requirement has been reviewed and approved by our
> University IRB and, I feel, meets all the requirements of the APA Code of
> Ethics. Has anyone experienced a similar argument? What is your opinion?
> What are some solutions?
>
>
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