[Air-l] Parental consent

[Charles Ess]

> 
> My IRB has indicated openness to collecting consent online if a suitable
> process can be identified. I would love to hear suggestions.

Hi Denise,

The AoIR ethical guidelines (www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf) include some
suggestions - including protocols - from AoIR-ist Leslie Regan Shade
(oriented towards the Canadian context) that should be useful to you.
(Part VII. Addendum 3: Sample consent forms (courtesy, Leslie Regan Shade)
for parents and children involved in Internet research. pp. 23f.)

A number of U.S.-based AoIR-ists have written thoughtfully and perceptively
about online research with adolescents as well.  If they do not respond to
your query over the next few days with some specific suggestions appropriate
for a U.S.-based IRB, I'll contact them and request permission to forward to
you offlist their names and email addresses.

g'luck - and let us know what you find out!

cheers,
- charles

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