Participation types
- Harmony Jankowski
Wondering who should participate in your experiment and how you should decide?
Terracotta includes 3 participation types; you decide which one will work best for you when you set up your experiment, but here’s a description of each one to help you decide.
Students will be invited to consent
Teacher will manually decide
Automatically include all students
Students will be invited to consent
If you want to (or if your IRB requires you to) create an Informed Consent assignment, this is the option you want.
Please refer to the Quick Start Guide for instructions.
If you create an Informed Consent assignment, be sure to set its Canvas due date before your first regular assignment open date. If a student accesses an assignment that isn’t the Informed Consent assignment first, they will automatically be excluded from your experiment.
Teacher will manually decide
If you’re working with minors and collecting parental consent, this option will allow you to indicate manually which students should be included in the experiment. Click continue to show 3 categories: participating, not participating, and unassigned.
Begin by clicking the “unassigned” dropdown, and then check the boxes next to the students you would like to move to “participating,” and click “move to,” then “participating.”
Then, check the boxes next to the students you would like to move to “not participating,” and click “move to,” then “not participating.”
Click continue, then “even.”
Automatically include all students
Choose this option if your study does not require informed consent.
One of the basic principles of ethical research is showing respect for research participants. One way of showing this respect is by providing people an opportunity to make decisions for themselves about whether they want to participate in a study.
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