The Ohio State University Parental Permission For Child’s Participation in Research
Study Title: Spatial Development
Researcher: Dr. Sami Yousif
This is a parental permission form for research participation. It contains important information about this study and what to expect if you permit your child to participate.
Your child’s participation is voluntary. Please consider the information carefully. Feel free to discuss the study with your friends and family and to ask questions before making your decision whether or not to permit your child to participate.
Purpose. The purpose of this study is to understand how children perceive and reason about space, particularly with respect to simple shapes like letters and numbers.
Procedures/Tasks. Participants will see line drawings of simple shapes They will be asked questions like, “Which one is not like the others?” or “Can you draw this shape?”.
Duration. The study may take anywhere from 1-30 minutes in total (usually less than 5 minutes). If the researcher has not already told you how long the study is, feel free to check with them now. Your child may leave the study at any time. If you or your child decides to stop participation in the study, there will be no penalty and neither you nor your child will lose any benefits to which you are otherwise entitled.
Risks and Benefits. The only risks involved with this study would be a breach of data confidentiality or boredom/frustration. However, the personal and identifiable information collected about your child will be aggregated and deidentified and not used for future research purposes. Your child will not benefit directly from participating in the study. They can stop at any time.
Confidentiality. Efforts will be made to keep your child’s study-related information confidential. Outside of the short demographic survey you’re about to complete, we are only collecting data about responses and response times in the task itself. Data from this task may be shared only if an agency or review board mandates it, or if we publicly release the data when the work is published. We release data via the “Open Science Framework”; these data would include the child’s responses as well as their birthdate but no other identifying information.
Future Research. Your child’s data will not be shared beyond the current study.
Participant Rights. You or your child may refuse to participate in this study without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. If you or your child is a student or employee at Ohio State, your decision will not affect your grades or employment status. If you and your child choose to participate in the study, you may discontinue participation at any time without penalty or loss of benefits. By signing this form, you do not give up any personal legal rights your child may have as a participant in this study. An Institutional Review Board responsible for human subjects research at The Ohio State University reviewed this research project and found it to be acceptable, according to applicable state and federal regulations and University policies designed to protect the rights and welfare of research participants.
Contacts and Questions. For questions, concerns, or complaints about the study, or you feel your child has been harmed as a result of study participation, you may contact Dr. Sami Yousif (yousif.36@osu.edu). For questions about your child’s rights as a participant in this study or to discuss other study-related concerns or complaints with someone who is not part of the research team, you may contact the Office of Responsible Research Practices at 1-800-678-6251. I have read (or someone has read to me) this form and I am aware that I am being asked to provide permission for my child to participate in a research study. I have had the opportunity to ask questions and have had them answered to my satisfaction. I voluntarily agree to permit my child to participate in this study.
By continuing, you are indicating that you have read all of the above and provide permission for your child to participate.