Registration Agreement
This software has been developed as part of a a research study to to develop novel computer-based teaching tools for use in EEE 202 and similar courses, and to assess their effectiveness in comparison to traditional methods of instruction. As part of the course this semester, you are being asked to use the new instructional materials. Registration to use these materials will constitute your agreement to participate in this research study as described below. If you do not wish to participate, you may request alternative conventional assignments in place of the tutorial exercises from your instructor, and you will not suffer any academic penalty as a result.
If you use the new materials and participate in the research study, which is optional for you, we will analyze your responses to the tutorials and concept inventories and the time you spend using the tutorials for our research purposes to help improve the software. We will also include data on your performance on exams as part of the study. You will be asked to complete a very brief survey at the completion of each software tutorial, which should take no longer than about 3 minutes. We will also ask you to respond to a survey on the quality and effectiveness of the materials after you have finished using them. This survey should take no longer than about 20 minutes.
When we collect data about you on your course performance, it will initially be associated with your name or ID number so that we can correlate the various data. The data will be collected at multiple times over the course of the semester. This data will be stored securely in your instructor’s locked office on a password-protected computer and will not be available to anyone else but your course instructor in this form. Before making the data available to anyone else involved in the study, your name and ID number will be removed from the data so that it cannot be traced back to you. At that time the copy of the data including names or identifiers will be destroyed. The data will be publicly reported only in aggregate form that does not reveal information about any individual. The data collected about your work in the software system will be associated only with an identifier assigned by and known only to your course instructor. Your progress in the software system will be reported to your instructor using this identifier so that they can assign homework grades based on completion of the tutorials.
Your use of the new course materials and associated participation in the research portion of the study is voluntary. You can skip questions on the surveys if you wish. If you choose not to participate or to withdraw from the research portion of the study at any time, there will be no penalty, and it will not affect your course grade. If you do withdraw, we will no longer use any data involving you to assess or improve the materials.
Your responses will be used to attempt to improve the materials we are developing, which will not benefit you but may benefit future users of these materials. There are no foreseeable risks or discomforts to your participation.
Your responses to the survey will be anonymous. The results of this study may be used in reports, presentations, or publications but your name will not be known. The results will only be shared in the aggregate form, except for specific verbal comments and suggestions that you might make anonymously.
If you have any questions concerning the research study, please contact the research team at (480) 965-8592 (Professor Brian Skromme, in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering). If you have any questions about your rights as a subject/participant in this research, or if you feel you have been placed at risk, you can contact the Chair of the Human Subjects Institutional Review Board, through the ASU Office of Research Integrity and Assurance, at (480) 965-6788.
By clicking I Agree, you will be agreeing to participate in the study.