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The website where you will complete the ethics application is https://cer.hec.ca
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Log-in to nagano, and then click on my projects (the stack). Once you have clicked into “my projects” you will be able to click on “New Project”
Then, begin your project with a page that looks like this
(Note, the below only applies if you are a master’s student. Please check with me if you are submitting an ethics application but you are not a master’s student)
Yay! Now your project is created and you will be sent to a screen that looks like this. Click on “Form 1” to begin your ethics application:
| Subheading | Your response |
|---|---|
| 1. TCPS | Make sure you have read the TCPS, then click next |
| 2. Title | Give your project a title that is a bit longer than your acronym title |
| 3. Type of Researcher | MSc student (or whichever applies if you’re not an MSc student) |
| 4. Principal Investigator | You :) |
| 5. Research Team | Say “yes” and add my name |
| 6. Project Summary | Provide a short summary of the project |
| (If you are preparing and IRB for me as an RA, leave this blank and I’ll do it) | |
| 7. Method | Likley you will put “experimental survey research” but make sure that’s actually true to the design we agreed on |
| Subheading | Your Response |
|---|---|
| 1. Project Duration | Master’s students: 12 months |
| Submitting on my behalf: 24 months | |
| 2. Type of Data | Usually: Questionnaires & Experimentation |
| 3. Research in Organizations | No |
| 4. Data Collection Abroad | Will the project be carried out either partially or entirely outside of Canada? |
| Yes | |
| Is there a competent authority requiring an ethical evaluation of the research project you are going to carry out in the country where you will be collecting data (other than Canada)? | |
| Yes | |
| In which countries other than Canada will you be collecting data? | |
| USA, UK | |
| *** Make sure everyone on the research team has signed Appendix E* | |
| 5. First Nations, Inuit or Métis communities | No |
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| Subheading | Your Response |
|---|---|
| 1. Planned Sample Size | Master’s students: 400 |
| Submitting on my behalf: | |
| 3000 (Participants will be recruited from Prolific) | |
| 500 (Participants will be recruited from HEC and the surrounding community) | |
| 2. Type of Questionnaire | Do you plan to use one or more online questionnaires? |
| Yes | |
| What software or online questionnaire service do you intend to use? | |
| Qualtrics | |
| Where will participants’ answers to the questions be stored before being downloaded by the researcher? | |
| Qualtrics | |
| Do you intend to collect respondents’ IP addresses? | |
| Yes | |
| 3. Non-response option | Terminate his/her participation in the study |
| 4. Partial disclosure or deception | Usually: Yes: Use of fictitious scenarios |
| *(Sometimes we plan to actually deceive participants about something. If that’s the case, talk to me before submitting this response) |
Please specify* Participants will be asked to imagine [brief description of your scenario here] and report how they would respond. Throughout, it will be very clear that we would like them to imagine this happening, not that it has happened or will happen. As such, we request not to include a debriefing document.
Do you intend to provide a debriefing? (Note that if we are actively deceiving participants we would include a debriefing) Based on instructions, participants will be clearly notified that imagined scenarios are imaginary. | | 5. Data Linkage | Normal Study: No Multi-part study: Linkage with data on the same person | | 6. Submission of questionnaires | Submit a word document with verbatim what study protocol including manipulations and measures you wish to submit. If you are a research assistant filling out an ethics for me, I will provide you with this. | | 7. Confidentiality during data collection | No
Why are you not able to ensure confidentiality? I collect Prolific IDs to exclude participants who have already taken earlier studies. IP Address and geolocation are automatically collected by the survey software. I retain them because they can be helpful in identifying automated responders (i.e., bots)
How do you intend to minimize the potential negative effects of a lack of confidentiality during data collection? All identifying details will be removed from datasets before posting them on open science websites or sharing them outside the research team. No sensitive questions are asked as part of the experimental procedure.
Will it be possible to keep the identity of persons who refused to participate completely confidential? Yes
Briefly justify your answer. On Prolific/SONA, researchers are not provided with the personal details of participants who decide not to take the study. | | 8. Identification of Participants | Yes Normal Study: Although the data collection method will provide identifiable information, that information will not be used for research purposes Multi-part study: It will be used to follow participants’ answers to other questions or other types of data collection | | 9. Confidentiality in dissemination | When DISSEMINATING your research results, what is the maximum level of confidentiality you can guarantee participants? Complete anonymity
If you selected different options for different groups or categories of participants, specify to which group the previous answer applies. N/A
How will you report the information collected from a participant when your results are disseminated? Results will be disseminated as aggregate data |