10.15 Part 1: Informed Consent

We spent the first part of class planning and practicing how to get informed consent from your project participants. 

I handed out:

• a signed (by me) informed consent form
• a signed (by me) A-V consent form
• a debriefing form.

You started a paragraph to cover the specifics of your project so you could talk to your participants about your study,  your processes for subject selection, the purpose of your study, and you data collection methods. 

After watching Tania talk through the process for getting informed consent, you practiced with a partner. 

In addition to covering all the points pertaining to your study, made sure to:

• point out the contact information
• inform participants that they can withdraw with no penalty/consequence at any time
• make clear the steps you will take to preserve confidentiality
• ask if your participant has any questions
• get a copy of the signed forms for you to turn in to me, and give one to the participant

You also looked through the A-V form.  As you present the A-V form, make clear that participants can request that the recording equipment be turned off at any point during the interview, and that the A-V form only pertains to data recording.  Again, draw participants' attention to the contact numbers, and create two sets of forms, on for you to turn in to me, and one for the participant to keep .

At the end of your data collection you will provide participants with a debriefing form.  Thank your participant, explain how their participation was important, point out the contact numbers, and thank them again.

The second part of class focused on Discourse, Dominant Discourse, Primary Discourse, Secondary Discourse, and discourse analysis (our talk about the transcript).

Because that is another topic - I am setting it up as a separate post.

For next class:

Blog 7: Post the material you will use to describe your project when you present your informed consent materials.  Even if you will not actually be using human subjects, and will not need to present consent forms, write up a your project as if you were using participants so you will have training in presenting consent forms.