Research in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools - SBE

PPRA gives parents some level of control over their child's:

Participation in third-party survey research or exposure to instructional materials developed by researchers

The purpose of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is to:

Provide parents certain rights over their children's educational records.

Which of the following types of information may schools disclose without consent from the parent or student to a researcher at a local university?

Directory information.

If research in a private school is directly funded by the Department of Education, then:

PPRA applies.

Parental notification, in lieu of active parental permission, is allowed when:

An IRB has approved a waiver of the requirement for parental permission.

In addition to the general provisions of the Common Rule (the federal regulations for protecting research subjects), the following regulations also govern research in the public schools:

FERPA, PPRA, and Subpart D of the federal regulations

If the research is subject to Subpart D, which of the following research activities with children would qualify for an exemption under Category 2 (research that includes educational tests, surveys, interviews, observation)?

Research about aptitude testing

Which federal regulation or law governs how researchers can obtain data about subjects' disciplinary status in school from academic records?

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.