Moving Forward with IRBs: Best Practices

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Moving Forward with IRBsBest Practices

• Chair Philip Rubin, Haskins Labs and Yale
  University
• Robert E. Remez, Barnard College
• Roxane Cohen Silver, U. of California, Irvine
• Bennett I. Bertenthal, Indiana University
• Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research
  Assoc.

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Symposium Goals

• Disseminate best practices for researchers
  working with social and behavioral science IRBs
• Examples of specific strategies for working
  effectively with IRBs from leading scientists
• Change the nature of our approach to IRB
  relationships, fostering a more conducive
  atmosphere for research

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Amy Pollick, IRBs Navigating the Maze
Practical advice for working with institutional
review boards, November 2007 Observer APS
Members Share IRB Experiences Grant Benham,
From Both Sides of the Trenches Dick McGlynn,
Lets Band Together B. R. Simon Rosser,
Working Constructively and Realistically
with IRBs Jerry Burger, Mimicking Milgram,
December 2007 Amy Pollick, Talking with your
IRBs about risk Show them the data, February
2008 Elena Newman, Assessing trauma and its
effects without distress A guide to working with
IRBs, May 2008
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Share your IRB tips by emailing APS at
apsobserver_at_psychologicalscience.org
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Robert E. RemezBarnard College, Columbia
University

• Assuring confidentiality and voluntary
  participation
• Adjusting the regulatory burden to match the risk
  of harm
• Improvising
• Grading the review (full board, expedited,
  administrative)
• Compliance education for applicants
• The status of student projects

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