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Institutional Review Board

Consistent with the law, Arkansas State University Mid-South maintains an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that has oversight responsibility for campus-wide human subjects’ research, with the primary purpose of ensuring that the rights and welfare of participants are protected.

Human subjects research is categorized in one of three classifications including full board review, expedited review, exempt status, and student protocols.

Full Board Review

Full Board review is required for all research involving greater than minimal risk to subjects and for research involving any protected subject populations including pregnant women and their fetuses, prisoners, children, elderly, and psychiatric patients. Only the full board can reject an application to conduct projects using human subjects.

Expedited Review

Expedited review is appropriate for research that involves no more than minimal risk or for review of minor changes to previously-approved research projects. An expedited review may include the IRB chairperson alone, or one or more experienced reviewers. Protocols eligible for expedited review include:

  • Collection of data from subjects 18 years of age or older using non-invasive procedures that are routinely employed in clinical practice;
  • Study of existing data, documents, records, pathological specimens or diagnostic specimens;
  • Research on individual or group behavior or characteristics of individuals, such as studies of perception, cognition, game theory, or test development, where the investigator does not manipulate the subject’s behavior and the research will not involve stress to subjects;
  • Research involving manipulation of the subject’s behavior which does not involve stress or risk

Expedited review may also be appropriate for minor changes or requests for extensions in previously-approved research during the period (one year or less) for which approval is authorized.

Exempt Status

“Exempt” protocols are administratively reviewed, but must meet the following conditions:

  • The research must be conducted in established or commonly accepted educational settings, involving normal educational practices, such as research on regular and special education instructional strategies, or research on the effectiveness of or the comparison among instructional techniques, curricula, or classroom management methods;
  • Research involving the use of educational tests (cognitive, diagnostic, aptitude, achievement), survey procedures, interview procedures or observation of public behavior, unless the subjects can be identified and any data disclosure could reasonably place the subjects at risk;
  • Research involving the collection or study of existing data, documents, records, pathological specimens, or diagnostic specimens, if these sources are publicly available or if the information is recorded by the investigator in such a manner that subjects cannot be identified, directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects;
  • Research and demonstration projects which are conducted by or subject to the approval of governmental department or agency heads to study public benefit or service programs;
  • Taste and food quality evaluation and consumer acceptance studies if the food is at or below the level found to be safe, by the Food and Drug Administration or approved by the and/or the Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

ASU Mid-South IRB Roster 2017-2018.docx

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