November 8, 2007
Revised Faculty Testing Instructions
Revised Faculty Testing Instructions
This document is the final draft of the Faculty Testing Instructions. After the initial copy was written, the testing group reviewed the document and made a few suggestions. I took these comments into account and revised the document to include the following changes:
1.) I added a senario concerning IRB approval exemptions to test whether or not the website clearly conveyed the circumstanes that warrented IRB approval. Not every type of research needs IRB approval. If researchers don’t need it, then it’s a waste of time, but if they do need it and do not file for approval they will not be allowed to publish their findings.
2.) I added a senario concerning consent forms to test whether or not users could easily find nescessary consent form information on the IRB website. This is a vital question because without proper human subjects consent forms, researchers cannot perform their studies.
3.) I removed questions concerning the location of obscure documents like the Belmont Report and the TTU Audit Report. This keeps the testing instructions brief and leaves out data that will not aid our research.
