CPACE interview/ survey participant information and consent form
You are being asked to participate in a research project. Researchers
are required to provide a consent form to inform you about the study,
to convey that participation is voluntary, to inform you about your
right to confidentiality, to explain risks and benefits of
participation, and to empower you to make an informed decision. You
should feel free to ask the researchers any questions you may have.
CPACE: A Collaborative Process to Align Computing Education with Engineering Workforce Needs
CPACE Research Director:
Dr. Mark Urban-Lurain
Director of Instructional Technology Research & Development
Division of Science and Mathematics Education
MichiganStateUniversity
111 N. Kedzie Lab Voice: (517) 432-2152 x 119
East Lansing,MI 48824 Fax: (517) 432-5653
urban@msu.edu www.msu.edu/~urban
1. PURPOSE OF RESEARCH: You are being asked to participate in
a research project that brings together Michigan State University
(MSU), Lansing Community College (LCC) and Corporation for a Skilled
Workforce (CSW) to design and implement a process to bring together a
wide variety of stakeholders - business, community leaders and post
secondary educators -to collaborate to identify workforce computational
skills, define how these skills can be integrated across a curriculum,
and develop revised curricula that integrate computational
problem-solving across engineering departmental courses. This research
is designed to document and evaluate this process to determine if it can
serve as a model for national efforts to revitalize undergraduate
computing education in engineering.
Your participation in this research will help us understand
stakeholder's assessments of the computational skills needs in their
business sectors. Your participation in this study will take about 45
minutes.
2. WHAT YOU WILL DO: You will complete a pre-interview
survey about your company. We will then conduct an interview with you
about your perceptions and opinions about the use of computational tools
by engineers in your company. In particular, we are focusing using
computers to analyze, design, model or make decisions as part of the
engineering practice. For a number of the questions you are asked to
think about your needs 3-5 years in the future. You will have a chance
to review the interview questions prior to the interview. All
information is collected, maintained, and analyzed confidentially.
3. POTENTIAL BENEFITS: If you wish, we will make
results of the research available to you and these results may help you
and your company understand common themes that emerge from the
interviews. The process developed in this project may contribute to
revising engineering curricula that integrates computational
problem-solving across engineering departmental courses. This process
can serve as a model for national efforts to revitalize undergraduate
computing education in engineering, and should be extensible to other
computing education reform efforts. These efforts should help educators
better prepare future engineering graduates.
4. POTENTIAL RISKS: A potential risk is that during the
course of the interview the subject might reveal a trade secret. But
please keep in mind that the protocol does not ask for proprietary
information. You may refuse to answer any question that you feel may
reveal proprietary or other confidential information.
5. PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY: The data for this project
will be kept confidential. The interview and survey, either conducted
online or on paper, will be collected with some identifying information,
such as your name, company and title. The interviews will be recorded
and transcribed for research purposes ONLY. The recordings will only be
available to members of the research team. The recordings will not be
used in any presentations or reports. The researchers will not collect
IP addresses for those who complete the survey online. On all sources
of data, your personal information will be replaced with pseudonym
identifiers, such that your personal information will not be stored with
any data. The list that connects personal information to pseudonyms
will be stored in a separate secure location. Information about you will
be kept confidential to the maximum extent allowable by law. It will not be possible to link the data with a particular participant.
Project data will be digitized and stored on a secure, password
protected computing system at MSU Access is only granted to
investigators on the project. Data will be stored for 5 years and then
destroyed. The results of this study may be published or presented at
professional meetings, but the identities of all research participants
will remain confidential.
6. Your rights to participate: Participation in
this survey is completely voluntary. You have the right to say no. You
may choose to stop participating at any time. Choosing not to
participate or withdrawing from this study will have no affect on you in
any way.
7. COSTS AND COMPENSATION FOR BEING IN THE STUDY: It is
important to recognize that participation in this research study is in
no way mandatory. You will not receive compensation for participating in
this study.
8. Contact Information for Questions and Concerns: If you
have concerns or questions about this study, such as scientific issues,
how to do any part of it, or to report an injury, please contact the
CPACE Research Director: Dr. Mark Urban-Lurain, Director of
Instructional Technology Research & Development, Division of Science
and Mathematics Education, MSU, at 517-432-2152 x 119, Fax:
517-432-5653, e-mail urban@msu.edu or regular mail at 111 N. Kedzie Lab,
East Lansing, MI 48824
If you have any questions or concerns about your role and rights as a
research participant, or would like to register a complaint about this
study, you may contact, anonymously if you wish, the Director of MSU's
Human Research Protection Program, Dr. Peter Vasilenko, at 517-355-2180,
Fax 517-432-4503, or e-mail irb@msu.edu or regular mail at 202 Olds
Hall, MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824
9. Documentation of Informed consent: Your signature below means that you voluntarily agree to participate in this research study.
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Signature Date
You will be given a copy of this form to keep.
