Thank you for your interest in our research.
The teaching strategies that we are developing for this project are to help us find effective ways to teach key areas of the curriculum.
We are giving parents and carers the option of removing their child’s data from the overall sample. At the same time, we want our strategies to take into account the spread of abilities, needs and interests of children in the class. For that reason the findings are far more useful for our own teaching and for other teachers if we have a high level of participation.
Most of our research takes place in school with teacher supervision or in a teacher education setting. When we research in schools, we ask the head teacher or a senior leader for permission for the study to take place.
We then provide information to students and parents. The university review process which looks at ethical and GPDR issues has concluded that the research is in the public interest and relevant to our core business of creating effective way to teach. This means we can provide an ‘opt-out’ form and also ask parents/carers to get in touch where they have questions.
For GPDR, we are not using ‘consent’ as our legal basis for data gathering in our survey studies. We do ask parents/carers for consent for interview studies. We use ‘legitimate interest’ for surveys. This is firstly because the research is in the public interest and the rate of participation is relevant to that interest. Another key factor in GDPR is the risk of identification and we can help to prevent identification via the design of the survey, the methods of analysis and reporting. I’ve put more details in the document attached.
This page also has copies of standard information and reply forms.
Essential Experiences in Science – Consent and Information sheets
