Statement of Informed
Consent for Student Course Ratings Website
A group of Masters
students in the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley
are conducting a study to assess a user interface for a proposed course
discussion website.
If you volunteer
to participate in this study, you will be asked to work with a paper
prototype of the website, write some queries on paper, look at the results
returned by the prototype user interface, evaluate those results, and
answer some questions. The questions will be asked orally before, during
and after the session. Your interactions with the prototype will be
recorded through written note-taking and still photography.
There are no direct
benefits to you for participating other than what may be an educational
experience. There are also probably no risks to you; you will simply
be using a paper prototype, writing some queries, and viewing and evaluating
the results. We will associate an ID number with your experience and
will keep a record of the link between your name and ID number. However,
we will not name you if and when we discuss your behavior in research
publications.
If you accept these
terms, please write your initials and the date here: