Progress as of Mar. 22

Upon looking at the peer reviews of my research proposal, I realized there were a few spots I needed to tighten up. I took care of that, and the results can be seen in my Google Drive folder. I still need to catch up on the annotated bibliography entries…

Progress as of Mar. 29

Thanks to class on Wednesday night, I was able to add more detail to my IRB protocol. Additionally, I received feedback about my survey questions that helped tailor the questions for more specific, more helpful results. I uploaded materials to IRBNet yesterday. However, when I tried fiddling around with Survey Monkey, it didn’t allow me to incorporate smileys into my answers. I tried Google Forms, and though that worked better, two different smileys (due to their components, I suppose) did not work with the survey. Lastly, I saw that the PDF of my protocol included “blank characters” in the place of the smileys.

So, a major overhaul was necessary. I requested an opening of my IRB package. I then changed my protocol and form to reflect changes to the study (going from Survey Monkey to Google Forms, mainly). I additionally added an image of the survey questions to the package, to make up for how the research protocol did not properly include the smileys. The package is locked again, and will hopefully be reviewed shortly.