Should Capstone Course Activities Undergo Human Subjects Review?

Like many schools of public policy and management, New York University's Wagner School offers a capstone course in which teams of MPA students provide consultation to client organizations, This year, as the they began to assign students to teams, some members of the faculty sounded an alarm. Se...

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Published in:Journal of policy analysis and management 2004-10, Vol.23 (4), p.921-927
Main Author: Blustein, Jan
Format: Article
Language:English
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Curricula
Curriculum and Case Notes
Curriculum development
Development
Education
Human subjects
Institutional review boards
Medical research
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing students
Policy analysis
Policy studies
Public policy
Research design
Schools and educational services
Scientific ethics
Training
United States
Universities
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Summary:Like many schools of public policy and management, New York University's Wagner School offers a capstone course in which teams of MPA students provide consultation to client organizations, This year, as the they began to assign students to teams, some members of the faculty sounded an alarm. Several of the projects might involve interviewing service recipients about sensitive issues. Other projects would give teams access to confidential information. Faculty members experience with their university human subjects review board knew that such projects, where they to be undertaken in a research context, would require lengthy and cumbersome review. Did the capstone projects need to go through the human subjects review process? If the answer was yes, the program would come to a grinding halt, given the open-endeness of a capstone assignments and he bureaucratic nature of the committee application and approval process.
ISSN:0276-8739
1520-6688
DOI:10.1002/pam.20056