Institutional Review Board Guidelines
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Guidelines
Background
Information about applying for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval of your research proposals including research-in-action studies conducted during years one and two and doctoral dissertation research is available at http://researchintegrity.asu.edu/humans. Course instructors for research classes will provide additional information and support.
EdD candidates need IRB approval for their action research studies only when they plan to report the data in their dissertations or other public forms of dissemination. These IRB applications should be submitted when the candidate and Dissertation Committee Chair decide the candidate is ready.
As an exception to #1, EdD you may collect and report research data for class projects as well as Research Day without IRB approval.
EdD candidates' dissertations may (indeed, ought to) refer in a general way to the findings and lessons learned during previous cycles of action research.
The EdD program requires the IRB-approval sequence listed below under Steps. This three-step sequence is the minimum required of EdD candidates.
Steps
Semester 1:
Complete proper human subjects training by passing the CITI training course - Group 2 Social & Behavioral Research Investigators and Key Personnel, Basic Course. Information can be found through the Training and Workshops link of the IRB website: https://researchintegrity.asu.edu/human-subjects
Semester 2:
Complete -- but do not submit -- an IRB application as an orientation.
Semester 4:
After successfully defending the dissertation proposal, submit a formal up-to-date (possibly revised) IRB application for the dissertation research.
Semester 6:
After successfully defending the dissertation, you will need to close out the IRB application.