The final approved ethical action plan and information sheet and consent forms are here:
Ethical Action Plan v3 – Final
Info and Consent Form v3 – Final
The previous iterations can be found here:
The changes made across the iterations are discussed throughout my previous blog posts (link, link, link). A summary of the main changes were:
- To focus on selecting only willing students to participate, ensuring their comfort and voluntary involvement in the research. Also to reduce burden on myself and have a more realistic timescale (observing only two groups).
- To move from an inductive analysis to a more structured, deductive approach by using an observation grid. This ensured that the observation tool includes broad categories to examine reflections on positionality, lessening opportunity for misinterpretation or bias in data collection, nor to single out people for their characteristics.
- The info and consent forms make clear the criteria being used (iteration 2) and are framed in a more succinct way (iteration 3).