Languages and EAL classes

Task:   Students conduct surveys and present findings  

Required Elements: 

• teacher approval 

• include a consent section/ parental permission, with scope of project and data security methods included in information for informed consent by participants

• data security measures, e.g. deidentified, password protected files/ folders

• discussion of implications of methodology for ethical considerations

Task: Study of body functions 

Required Elements:

• Usual sectoral/school policies for scientific experiments 

• teacher approval

• include a consent section/ parental permission, with scope of project and data security methods included for informed consent

• data security, e.g. deidentified, password protected files/ folders

• discussion of implications of methodology for ethical considerations

Questions to consider:

• possibly simulated data for study rather than actual if the point of the task is analysis of data rather than its collection. 

Task: Training Program, including for self training

Required Elements: 

• risk assessment

• teacher approval

• include a consent section/ parental permission, with scope of project and data security methods included for informed consent

• data security, e.g. deidentified, password protected files/ folders

Questions to consider:

• possibly using simulated parameters rather than actual people for training

Task: Portraiture, live models/ known person from photograph

Required Elements:

• teacher approval 

• include a consent section/ parental permission, with scope of project and data security methods included for informed consent 

• data security- file management, process journal with removeable pages/paper for preparatory studies or sketches 

• process for right to withdraw consent

Task: Customer satisfaction surveys, feedback surveys, identifiable on paper

Required Elements:

• Teacher approval

• include a consent section/ parental consent, with scope of project and data security methods included if identified

• data security process, e.g. deidentified, password protected files/ folders

• Discussion of sampling methodology

Questions to consider:

Would probable sample collected be informative or misleading? Would it be better to use existing market research data to inform decisions instead? 

Alternative feedback mechanisms-

'customers' put tokens in labelled jars- satisfied/unsatisfied etc. 

'customers' press a smiley face spectrum on an ipad. 

Write a paragraph discussing whether you will have to alter assessment tasks you have used in the past in light of these principles.