While we hope students and faculty will join the SOLSTICE grant, enrollment is not mandatory. Students have the choice of consenting to the study when completing the IRB consent form described above.
All student responses remain anonymous to faculty and instructors of their enrolled course and principal investigators of the SOLSTICE grant. Only the Research Coordinator has access to names of student participants.
After completing surveys and assessments, the Research Coordinator will assign every student participant a study identification number. The student's name will be replaced with this identification number to protect student privacy. Even after de-identification, survey results and assessments will not be distributed to faculty and instructors. However, de-identified results will be shared with Principal Investigators on the SOLSTICE grant.
Completion of consent forms will take no more than 5 minutes. All surveys and assessments have been designed to take no more than 15 minutes each. This means that baseline information will be recorded in ~20-30 minutes, end-of-term progress information will be recorded in ~20-30 minutes, and six-month follow-up information will be recorded in ~20-30 minutes.
