A TRANSCENDENTAL PHENEMONOLOGY OF GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES INSTRUCTING TWICE-EXCEPTIONAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Jill D. Collet Liberty University School of Education
You are invited to be in a research study investigating the experiences of general education teachers instructing twice-exceptional students in high school. You were selected as a possible participant because you have experiences teaching students in your classroom with
characteristics of twice-exceptional students. Please read this form and ask any questions you may have before agreeing to be in the study.
Jill D. Collet, a doctoral candidate in the School of Education at Liberty University, is conducting this study.
Background Information: The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study is to
describe the lived experiences of general education teachers of academically gifted students who are twice-exceptional in one county’s high schools in northeast Ohio.
Procedures: If you agree to be in this study, I would ask you to do the following things:
1. Participate in a face-to-face interview with the researcher. The interview will take approximately one to hours. The face-to-face interview will be audio-recorded, but pseudonyms will be used to maintain confidentiality.
2. Participate in an online focus group through which several prepared questions will be answered. The online focus group will be conducted using an online discussion board format. Participation will take approximately one hour. Pseudonyms will be used to maintain confidentiality.
3. Respond to four prompts on teaching twice-exceptional students in your classroom. The written responses will take approximately one hour to complete. Pseudonyms will be used to maintain confidentiality.
Risks: The risks involved in this study are minimal and are no more than what participants
encounter in everyday life. If you experience discomfort while taking part in this study, you may choose to stop participating at any time.
Benefits: The direct benefits participants should expect to receive from taking part in this study
will be understanding the experiences of high school general education teachers instructing twice-exceptional students in their classrooms. While your participation may have potential benefits to education as a whole, you many not receive any direct benefits from your
Compensation: Participants will not be compensated for participating in this study.
Confidentiality: The records of this study will be kept private. In any sort of report I might
publish, I will not include any information that will make it possible to identify a subject.
Research records will be stored securely, and only the researcher will have access to the records. I may share the data I collect from you for use in future research studies or with other
researchers; if I share the data that I collect about you, I will remove any information that could identify you, if applicable, before I share the data.
• Procedures will be taken to protect the privacy of the all participants including the use of assigned pseudonyms and interviews conducted in locations where others will not easily overhear the conversation.
• Data will be stored on a password-protected computer and all documents will be kept in a locked file cabinet. Data may be used in future presentations.
• Interviews will be transcribed by the researcher. Recordings will be stored on a password locked computer for three years and then erased. Only the researcher will have access to these recordings.
• I cannot assure participants that other members of the online focus group will not share what was discussed with persons outside of the group.
Voluntary Nature of the Study: Participation in this study is voluntary. Your decision whether
or not to participate will not affect your current or future relations with Liberty University or school districts within Stark County. If you decide to participate, you are free to not answer any question or withdraw at any time without affecting those relationships.
How to Withdraw from the Study: If you choose to withdraw from the study, please contact the researcher at the email address/phone number included in the next paragraph. Should you choose to withdraw, data collected from you, apart from focus group data, will be destroyed immediately and will not be included in this study. Focus group data will not be destroyed, but your contributions to the focus group will not be included in the study if you choose to withdraw.
Contacts and Questions: The researcher conducting this study is Jill D. Collet. You may ask
any questions you have now. If you have questions later, you are encouraged to contact her at 330-696-7420 and/or [email protected]. You may also contact the researcher’s faculty chair, Dr. Rebecca Lunde at 419-681-1034 or [email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this study and would like to talk to someone other than the researcher, you are encouraged to contact the Institutional Review Board, 1971 University Blvd., Green Hall Ste. 1887, Lynchburg, VA 24515 or email at [email protected].
Please notify the researcher if you would like a copy of this information for your records.
The researcher has my permission to audio-record me as part of my participation in this study.
Signature of Participant Date