2002-2003 LOG of IRB Decisions at
The Colorado College  

Pro-posal

#

Date

Received

Investigator

(Advisor--*=fac approval)

 

Title

 

Decision

Made

By

Date

Notified

1

9/9/02

Hull (Erdal*)

Geriatric Nursing Staff: A Comparison of Nursing Home and Special Care Units

Exempt—voluntary, survey, confidential

Chair

9/10/02

2

9/18/02

Weir

Audiogram lab for Perception class

Same lab as previously approved (#117[01-02]) by IRB—no new paperwork.  Approval Extended

Chair

9/18/02

3

10/2/02

Mercil (Erdal*)

Hemispheric Verbal and Spatial Lateralization in Vocalists and Instrumentalists

Exempt—voluntary, survey, confidential

Chair

10/3/02

4

10/4/02

10/25/02

Skewes (Arnink*)

Senior Drama Thesis/Project

Approved on condition 1) therapist approve curriculum; 2) further protection of subject identities—no videotaping, extra care with journal; 3) separate consent forms; 4)Cedar Springs approval of project

IRB

10/10

Chair

10/25

10/11/02

 

 

10/25/02

5

10/7/02

10/14/02

Pylypczuk

(Jacobson*)

Language Choices in the Border Towns of San Diego and Tijuanna

Asked for more information (text of request); required shop owner permission

Approved

IRB

10/10

 

Chair

10/11/02

 

 

10/14/02

6

10/7/02

Okulski

(Bresna-han*)

CS Wicca Women: Out of the Shadows

Approved—voluntary, confidentiality ok, relatively benign questions

Chair

10/9/02

7

10/8/02

Montalbano

(Bresna-han*)

Women Sweat-shop Workers in NY City

Approved—contingent on NOT asking about identity of employer and treating any info about employers as confidential

IRB

10/10

10/11/02

8

10/8/02

True (Roberts*)

Objectification Theory and Praise: Historical Roots of Appearance Control Beliefs

Approved—voluntary, largely anonymous, benign questions

Chair

10/9/02

9

10/8/02

Sortor (Livesay*, Popkin)

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Division I and Division III Collegiate Athletics

Approved—voluntary, confidentiality ok, benign

Chair

10/9/02

10

10/9/02

Popkin and Suarez

Latino Immigrant Communities in CS

Approved with modifications in the consent form—more details about research process and recognition that researchers can not control what other participants repeat about what’s said in the focus group interview

IRB

10/10

10/11/02

11

10/14/02

Shonnard and Purdy

(Weir*)

Perceptions of Crime

Approved—voluntary, confidential, benign survey

Chair

10/15/02

12

10/15/02

12/20/02

Kumaria (Bertrand*)

Ratio of ring finger to index finger length as an indication of athletic performance …

First proposal rejected as incomplete; Second proposal exempt—voluntary subjects, benign procedure (zerox hand), confidentiality ok.

Chair

1/13

1/13/03

13

10/25/02

Rosenfeld

Do Nothing Experiment and Cross-Dressing Exercise

Approved (probably not research as gov’t defines it); even so, adequate protections in place

Chair

10/25/02

14

 

Thexton

(Besecke*)

(Class Project)

Approved depending on teachers’ permission (probably not research)

Chair

10/31/02

15

10/31/02

Besecke

(Numerous Class Projects)

Not Research per se—gave cautions about making sure research follows relevant principles just in case

Chair

10/31/02

16

11/4/02

Nelson (Erdal*)

Effects of First vs. Third Person Visualization of Running on Galvanic Skin Response

Approved—voluntary, confidentiality ok, benign research procedures

Chair

11/4/02

17

11/4/02

Fowler (Duncom-be*)

The Role of the Privileged

Approved—voluntary, confidentiality ok, benign

(Subsequently withdrawn)

Chair

11/4/02

18

11/7/02

Melbye

(Waters*)

Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Disturbed Eating Habits Among Athletes in Judged and Non-Judged Sports

Approved—voluntary, confidential, survey, probably benign questions

Chair

11/8/02

19

11/11/02

Van Horn and Alvardo

CC Women Faculty: Changes in Climate and Support for Women Faculty, 1985-2002

Approved—voluntary, can be anonymous, confidentiality ok if choose not, informed consent, sensitive questions

Chair

11/17/02

20

11/24/02

Cato and  Silvia (CSU doctoral student and advisor)(CC contact person confirmed sponsor-ship)

Attitudes Toward Non-Fatal Suicide Behavior

Approved—voluntary, confidentiality ok, possibly benign questions

Chair

11/25/02

21

12/2/02

Exercise Physiology students (Fleck*)

Validation and Evaluation of the Beep Test to Predict VO2  Peak

Approved contingent on screening recruits, having recruits sign no physical counter indications, and having an EMT on call.

IRB

12/6/02

22

12/3/02

12/15/02

Bauer

(Waters*)

The Effect of a Cognitive Bas-ed Education Intervention in an Adult ESL Classroom

Approved with modification (and submission of actual surveys) so that the consent form describes what consenting to, clarification that refusal to participate will not affect eligibility for ESL class.

Chair

12/16/02

23

12/3/02

Holland

(Bresna-han*)

An Inquiry into the Meanings of ‘Natural’ Through an Examination of Midwifery

Approved with caveat that midwife make clear to clients that there is no pressure to participate if they don’t want to.

Chair

12/6/02

24

12/3/02

Hoberman and Kates

(Ebersole*)

Music and Moods in Different Settings

Approved—survey, voluntary, confidentiality ok

Chair

12/6/02

25

12/3/02

Muphy-Geiss

Local Religious Group Ethnography

Not research—declined to review

IRB

1/30

1/31/03

26

12/3/02

Adams

(Waters*)

Study Habits and Physical and Psychological Stress in Japanese High School Students

Approved as exempt once Adams clarified that he will survey only students 18 or older

Chair

12/5/02

27

12/4/02

Leivers

(Livesay*,  Rosenfeld)

Identity Maintenance and Habitus on the CC Cross Country Team

Approved with caution about protecting the identities of respondents given a very small population

Chair

12/7/02

28

12/4/02

Rutherford, Berry (Ebersole*)

Perceptions of Sexual Violence at CC

Approved as exempt

Chair

12/7/02

29

12/5/02

Robbins, Simmons, Mousavi-zadeh, Hoekenga (Wong*)

Relationship Between Gender Identity and Self-Esteem

Approved as exempt (Wong does not need to keep surveys)

Chair

12/5/02

30

12/5/02

Andrews, Cutolo, Harris, Jain, Manion (Wong*)

Minority Involvement at CC

Approved as exempt

Chair

12/5/02

31

12/5/02

Rodriguez-Archilla, Sanders, Wellman (Wong*)

Perceptions of Marriage

Approved as exempt

Chair

12/5/02

32

12/5/02

Owens, Galloway, Medina, Sonne-maker (Wong*)

CC Varsity Athletes Background Study

Approved with caveat of no pressure on participants to participate

Chair

12/5/02

33

12/5/02

Copeland, Dickersion, McCauley, Martinez, Parisi (Wong*)

CC: What students look for in prospective partners

Approved as exempt (Professor Wong does not need to keep surveys)

Chair

12/5/02

34

12/13/02

Calhoun

Student of Color Survey

Approved as exempt

Chair

12/17/02

35

1/10/03

Fowler (Fennell; Duncombe*)

Women and the Maquila

Exempt—voluntary adult subjects, relatively benign questions, confidentiality ok

Chair

1/10

1/10/03

36

1/13/03

Daniels (Livesay; Besecke)

Comparing Ordinary Everyday Social Interaction and Social Interaction while on the Drug Ecstasy

Rejected—not adequate description of project for subjects to make an informed decision about participation

Chair

1/16

1/16/03

37

1/13/03

Adams (Murphy-Geiss*; Besecke)

An Examination of Children, Moving, and Social Capital in a Highly Mobile Culture”

Exempt—with caveats

1. School Principal must give consent; 2.  Researcher does not teach children or surveyed parents or survey must be anonymous.  Benign questions.

Chair 1/13

1/13/03

38

1/13/03

Bayert (Livesay*; Popkin)

An Analysis of Social Movements and the Environment in Casper WY

Exempt—voluntary, adults, relatively benign questions, confidentiality ok

Chair

1/15

1/15/03

39

1/16/03

1/21/03

Pleune (Livesay*; Popkin)

The Urban Bartering Movement and its Contributions to Community Development

Return for more information about legality of bartering and how protect confidentiality of respondents.  Approved 2nd draft as exempt—interviews with adult volunteers; probably benign topic; confidentiality Ok.

Chair

1/27

1/27/03

40

1/21/03

Dickerson

Libqual Survey

Exempt—voluntary, anonymous, web survey, benign questions.

Chair

1/28

1/28/03

41

1/27/03

Mertz (Murphy-Geiss; Duncombe*)

Attitudes Towards Divorce and Marriage of Generation Xers amongst The Colorado College Campus

Exempt—voluntary adult subjects, surveys and interviews, relatively benign questions; confidentiality OK

Chair

1/28

1/28/03

42

1/27/03

Gill (Murphy-Geiss*; Besecke)

Womanhood for Christian Women

Approved with clarification that consent forms contain caution that other participants in group interviews might violate confidentiality

IRB

1/30

1/31/03

43

1/28/03

Bridges (Livesay*; Wong)

First Generation Freshman Adjustment Experiences to the Colorado College

Exempt—survey and interview with voluntary adult subjects whose identities will be held in confidence; benign questions. Gave caution about too many details compromising confidentiality.

Chair

1/28

1/30/03

44

1/28/03

2/2/03

Marlow (Waters*)

Terrorism Anxiety and the Media in the Post-9/11 World: A Cross-Cultural Study

Asked for more information

 

Approved as a reasonably benign experiment (reading an article) with adequate debriefing to allay most harms (anxiety reactions)

IRB

1/30

Chair

2/5

1/31/03

 

2/5/03

45

1/28/03

Carr (Besecke; Duncombe*)

The Response Techniques of Men and Women When Talking about Problems

Approved with clarification that consent forms contain caution that friend in the conversation might violate confidentiality

IRB

1/30

1/31/03

46

2/6/03

Branch

(WS)

Generational Perceptions of Oral Sex

Rejected—no faculty sponsor; sample strategy not reasonable; invasion of privacy; statistical evidence not useful with small samples

Chair

2/6

2/6/03

2/7/03

47

2/10/03

Fleck

Field Test Battery Profiling of Elite Athletes

Approved by virtual meeting

IRB

 

2/14/03

48

2/25/03

Shartar (Duncom-be*)

What Attracts Women to

Midwifery

Approved—interviews with adults; confidentiality respected or waived; benign questions

Chair

2/25/03

49

2/25/03

Matthews (Wong*; Popkin)

Perceptions and Implemen-tations of Multi-

Cultural Education in an

Elementary Setting

Approved by virtual meeting with caveat that school principal give consent and extra care be taken so that children not be identifiable.

IRB

2/27/03

50

3/4/03

Krause and Horner

“Show Me the Money: Real and Hypo-thetical Scenarios in the Ultimatum Game

Approved—voluntary, confidentiality ok; benign manipulation

Chair

3/5/03

51

3/10/03

Weir

Effect of Instructions to

Fake on Personality Test Scores

Approved—voluntary; confidentiality OK, benign manipulation

Chair

3/11/03

52

3/18/03

Wieder

Science as Story: teaching biology through the history of biology

Denied—research not voluntary, involves minors, might contaminate graded work

IRB

4/4/03

53

3/19/03

Gasperini

The Effects of Student Goal-Setting on Attitude and Performance

Approved if parental and school consent give.  Benign intervention

IRB

4/4/03

54

3/24/03

Coates (CU)

Evaluation Plan: Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities

Accepted HSRB approval from the UC—Boulder campus

Chair

3/25/03

(snail mail)

55

3/24/03

Roberts +

Purdy

Mortality Salience and Attitudes Toward Body Functions

Approved—voluntary, benign intervention, confidentiality ok

Chair

3/27/03

56

4/7/03

4/8/03

Sanders (Topete*)

Oaxacan farming communities and their situation with globalization

Approved with clarifications

Chair

4/7/03

57

4/24/03

Ball (Topete)

Las mujeres muralists de Oaxaca

Approved contingent on agency approval; caution about small group confidentiality

Chair

4/25/03

58

4/27/03

 

Steffen

(Scandlyn*)

Identity in Chronic Ilnness: Analysis of Recovering Identity Following a Stroke

Approved—voluntary; probably benign questions, confidentiality protections

Chair

4/29/03

59

4/27/03

Heidrich (Scandlyn*)

Injuries in Athletics

Approved with cautions about confidentiality in the report

Chair

4/29/03

60

4/28/03

Byrd, Tearse, Haas, Kallman (Weir*)

Social Facilitation in a Speed-related task

Approved—voluntary, benign, confidentiality ok

Chair

4/29/03

61

4/28/03

Pizzicara (Scandlyn*)

An Analysis of Biosocial and Biomedical Models of Preventing and Curing Menstrual  Complications

Approved—voluntary, benign, confidentiality ok

Chair

4/30/03

62

4/29/03

Sheehan, Gibson, Small (Weir*)

Advertisement perception among College-Age students

Approved—once separate demographic questionnaire from consent form

Chair

4/29/03

63

4/29/03

Rubin, Trujillo (Weir*)

Music Response Time v. Time of Interval

Approved with addition of consent form.

Chair

5/3/03

64

4/29/03

Hirshberg; Furth, Green (Weir*)

The Influence of ADD Medication on Cognition Interference

Approved—benign, voluntary, adequately confidential

Chair

4/29/03

65

4/29/03

Goodman (Scandlyn*)

American Ethnomedicine in the View of an Expecting Mother

Approved—voluntary, benign, confidentiality ok

Chair

4/30/03

66

4/29/03

Meehan

(Scandlyn*)

Views of Health Survey

Approved if splits consent form and survey

Chair

4/30/03

67

4/30/03

Schindler

(Scandlyn*)

Use of Massage Therapy

Approved with clarifications to consent form

Chair

4/30/03

68

5/5/03

Small (Weir*)

Faking effects on tests of Psychic Ability

Approved

Chair

5/6/03

69

5/5/03

Sheehan (Weir*)

The Effects of Various Coping Strategies on the Athletic Performance of Experienced and Inexperienced  Athletes

Approved if someone with emergency training and a phone on call while running subjects

Chair

5/6/03

70

5/5/03

Green (Weir*)

Cognitive Interference as a Function of Alcohol Use by College Students

Required actual questionnaire and consent form; caution about subject age of 18/+.

Approved

Chair

5/6/03

71

5/5/03

Gibson (Weir*)

Advertisement Perception

Required Consent Form

Approved

Chair

5/7/03

72

5/5/03

Sandell (Weir*)

The Effects of Priming and Medium on Advertisement Perception

Approved if separate questionnaire from consent form

Chair

5/6/03

73

5/5/03

Haas (Weir*)

Social Loafing: Task Difficulty and Group Type

Approved

Chair

5/6/03

74

5/5/03

Tearse (Weir*)

Variations on Personality tests” Oral vs Written

Approved

Chair

5/6/03

75

5/6/03

Bryd (Weir*)

Social Facilitation and Inhibition

Required a Consent form

Approved if more details in the consent form

Chair

5/6/03

76

5/6/03

Rubin (Weir*)

Extension of #63

Approved

Modified and Modifications Approved

Chair

5/6/03

77

5/6/03

Hirshberg (Weir*)

The Effects of Surrounding Environment on Cognitive Interference

Approved if separate consent form and questionnaire

Chair

5/6/03

78

5/6/03

Kallman (Weir*)

The relationship between motivation to exercise and body image in female CC students

Approved

Chair

5/6/03

79

5/6/03

Trujillo (Weir*)

ESP effects on Religiosity

Approved

Chair

5/8/03

80

5/8/03

Furth (Weir*)

The Effects of Stress on Naming the Colors of Stress-Related color words

Requested questionnaire; Approved by chair when questionnaire received

Chair

5/12/03

81

5/23/03

Calhoun (Popkin*)

Land Distribution Through Mongolia’s New Land Privatization Law)

Requested script of consent form to be read into taped interviews

 

Project withdrawan

 

 

82

6/11/03

Fleck

Smart Strength Project

Approved

Chair

6/11/03