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Re: museum visitors as experimental subjects
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Charlie Carlson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:21:02 -0700
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I agree.  The IRB is relatively easy, but seems weighty.  Centralization and institutionalization via ASTC, could serve as a key organizing feature for museum studies more generally, and would rest with a body that has the greatest vested interest but not be individually museum specific.
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On Mar 29, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Mary Nucci wrote:

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions.
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> Martin wrote: " With approval from an IRB you can use human subjects and we do it all the time in research projects related to
> understanding use of exhibitions in science centers."
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> I agree with Martin that ultimately IRB approval is relatively easy, especially if working with adults and not children; given the kinds of questions that are typically asked in educational institutions, IRB submission is eminently do-able.  Although I have not worked in museum settings under IRB requirement yet, my work is always liable to IRB approval, and I have had few issues in academic or cultural venues with doing research.  I like the idea of an ASTC IRB, but wanted to note that you can find independent IRB-associated groups to work within to file for human research approval.
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> Mary Nucci
> Rutgers University
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Charles Carlson
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