Please contact the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) office by phone at (317) 274-8289 or send an email to irb@iu.edu if you need accessibility help with the protocol decision tree.
What Do Your Research Procedures Involve?
Review the following multiple choice options and select the best option that applies to your new study submission. Your selections on each proceeding page will help identify the most likely level of review.
You are likely conducting research involving human subjects that requires review by the IRB. Please continue below.
Note: Your research may involve more than one of the categories below. Please proceed with one selection now, and repeat this step for each relevant category using the ‘Back to Exempt Research Criteria’ button at the conclusion of this process. Continue by then selecting any other applicable categories, and submit the study based on the highest level of review resulting from all of the paths.
Will your research procedures involve any of the following:
- A: Normal educational practices in established or commonly accepted educational settings1
Select option A - B: Use of educational tests, surveys, interviews, or observation of public behavior OR use of benign behavioral interventions2
Select option B - C: Secondary use of identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens collected for purposes other than this research study
Select option C - D: A federally-funded evaluation of a public benefit or service program OR taste and food quality evaluation and consumer acceptance studies
Select option D - E: None of the above
Select option E
1including evaluation of special educational strategies or the effectiveness of instructional techniques, curricula, or classroom management methods
2Benign behavioral interventions are behavioral (non-medical) interventions that are brief in duration, harmless, painless, not physically invasive, and unlikely to have significant adverse lasting impact on the people participating in your research. Also, the investigator must have no reason to think the subjects will find the interventions offensive or embarrassing.
Questions?
The Indiana University Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) provides administrative support to all IU campuses and maintains physical offices in two locations, Indianapolis and Bloomington.
Indianapolis (Main):
Human Research Protection Program (HRPP)Office for Research Compliance
Indiana University
986 Indiana Avenue, 5th Floor
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
- Phone: (317) 274-8289
- Email: irb@iu.edu
Bloomington:
Human Research Protection Program (HRPP)Office for Research Compliance
Indiana University
509 E. Third St.
Bloomington, Indiana 47401
- Phone: (812) 856-4242
- Email: irb@iu.edu