DISSERTATION STUDY: IRB MODIFICATION APPROVAL EMAILS

To: Ayeesha Hankins

Student Affairs

2893 Inca Court, Winston-Salem, NC 27103

From: UNCG IRB Date: 8/24/2016

RE: Notice of IRB Exemption (modification)

Exemption Category: 2.Survey, interview, public observation Study #: 15-0528

Study Title: Cultivating Academic and Social Self-Efficacy in First-Year Students: A Quantitative Study of the First-

Year Seminar

This submission has been reviewed by the IRB and was determined to be exempt from further review according to the regulatory category cited above under 45 CFR 46.101(b).

Study Description:

This purpose of this study is to assess the academic and social self-efficacy of first-time freshman students enrolled in the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Foundations for Learning (FFL) course. Academic self-efficacy underscores the belief a student maintains about his or her ability to successfully achieve at a designated level on an academic task or attain a specific academic goal. Similarly, relational or social self-efficacy underscores an individual’s confidence in her/his ability to engage in the social interactional tasks necessary to initiate and maintain interpersonal relationships. A quasi-experimental pre-post study design will be utilized to determine if the intervention (the FFL course) contributed to changes in self-efficacy scores. Differences in scores, will be measured by the College Self-

Efficacy Inventory (CSEI). A secondary purpose is to determine if differences in self-efficacy scores are dissimilar

among specific subgroups of students, including male and female, and various racial and ethnic groups. Research participants in FFL 100 sections for Exploratory majors (Arts and Sciences Undecided) will invited to voluntarily complete the online survey. The survey will be administered via Qualtrics by the principal investigator and students will be required to agree to an informed consent statement before completing the survey.

Regulatory and other findings:

 This research meets criteria for waiver of a signed consent form according to 45 CFR 46.117(c)(2).

 The IRB requirement that all consent documents used in the enrollment process display the IRB approval stamp is waived for this study.

Modification Information:

 After completing the pilot study in spring 2016, modifications will be made to the study in the following areas: administration, analyses, and the CSEI instrument.

 Consent form and recruitment materials were modified to reflect changes

Investigator’s Responsibilities

Please be aware that any changes to your protocol must be reviewed by the IRB prior to being implemented. Please utilize the most recent and approved version of your consent form/information sheet when enrolling participants. The IRB will maintain records for this study for three years from the date of the original determination of exempt status.

Signed letters, along with stamped copies of consent forms and other recruitment materials will be scanned to you in a separate email. Stamped consent forms must be used unless the IRB has given you approval to waive this

Please be aware that valid human subjects training and signed statements of confidentiality for all members of research team need to be kept on file with the lead investigator. Please note that you will also need to remain in compliance with the university “Access to and Retention of Research Data” Policy which can be found

at http://policy.uncg.edu/university‐policies/research_data/. CC:

To: Ayeesha Hankins Student Affairs

2893 Inca Court, Winston-Salem, NC 27103 From: UNCG IRB

Date: 8/29/2016

RE: Notice of IRB Exemption (modification)

Exemption Category: 2.Survey, interview, public observation Study #: 15-0528

Study Title: Cultivating Academic and Social Self-Efficacy in First-Year Students: A Quantitative Study of the First- Year Seminar

This submission has been reviewed by the IRB and was determined to be exempt from further review according to the regulatory category cited above under 45 CFR 46.101(b).

Study Description:

This purpose of this study is to assess the academic and social self-efficacy of first-time freshman students enrolled in the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Foundations for Learning (FFL) course. Academic self-efficacy underscores the belief a student maintains about his or her ability to successfully achieve at a designated level on an academic task or attain a specific academic goal. Similarly, relational or social self-efficacy underscores an individual’s confidence in her/his ability to engage in the social interactional tasks necessary to initiate and maintain interpersonal relationships. A quasi-experimental pre-post study design will be utilized to determine if the intervention (the FFL course) contributed to changes in self-efficacy scores. Differences in scores, will be measured by the College Self-

Efficacy Inventory (CSEI). A secondary purpose is to determine if differences in self-efficacy scores are dissimilar

among specific subgroups of students, including male and female, and various racial and ethnic groups. Research participants in FFL 100 sections for Exploratory majors (Arts and Sciences Undecided) will invited to voluntarily complete the online survey. The survey will be administered via Qualtrics by the principal investigator and students will be required to agree to an informed consent statement before completing the survey.

Regulatory and other findings:

 This research meets criteria for waiver of a signed consent form according to 45 CFR 46.117(c)(2).  The IRB requirement that all consent documents used in the enrollment process display the

IRB approval stamp is waived for this study. Modification Information:

 A modification has been submitted as student email addresses will no longer be provided by the University Registrar’s Office, but Institutional Research (IR). This office will supply the principal investigator with each FFL 100 (361 designated) students UNCG email address, first name, last name, along with a course

designation (i.e., CRN or section number) to differentiate each student by the section of the course they are enrolled in.

 Additionally, the survey administration has been delayed by one week. The pre-course survey will be administered Tuesday, September 6th through Sunday, September 17th. The survey reminder email language and the in-class pre-course survey script have both been edited to reflect this change.

Investigator’s Responsibilities

Please be aware that any changes to your protocol must be reviewed by the IRB prior to being implemented. Please utilize the most recent and approved version of your consent form/information sheet when enrolling participants. The IRB will maintain records for this study for three years from the date of the original determination of exempt status. Signed letters, along with stamped copies of consent forms and other recruitment materials will be scanned to you in a separate email. Stamped consent forms must be used unless the IRB has given you approval to waive this requirement. Please notify the ORI office immediately if you have an issue with the stamped consents forms.

team need to be kept on file with the lead investigator. Please note that you will also need to remain in compliance with the university “Access to and Retention of Research Data” Policy which can be found

at http://policy.uncg.edu/university‐policies/research_data/. CC:

To: Ayeesha Hankins

Student Affairs

2893 Inca Court, Winston-Salem, NC 27103

From: UNCG IRB Date: 9/15/2016

RE: Notice of IRB Exemption

Exemption Category: 2.Survey, interview, public observation Study #: 15-0528

Study Title: Cultivating Academic and Social Self-Efficacy in First-Year Students: A Quantitative Study of the First-

Year Seminar

This submission has been reviewed by the IRB and was determined to be exempt from further review according to the regulatory category cited above under 45 CFR 46.101(b).

Study Description:

This purpose of this study is to assess the academic and social self-efficacy of first-time freshman students enrolled in the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Foundations for Learning (FFL) course. Academic self-efficacy underscores the belief a student maintains about his or her ability to successfully achieve at a designated level on an academic task or attain a specific academic goal. Similarly, relational or social self-efficacy underscores an individual’s confidence in her/his ability to engage in the social interactional tasks necessary to initiate and maintain interpersonal relationships. A quasi-experimental pre-post study design will be utilized to determine if the intervention (the FFL course) contributed to changes in self-efficacy scores. Differences in scores, will be measured by the College Self-

Efficacy Inventory (CSEI). A secondary purpose is to determine if differences in self-efficacy scores are dissimilar

among specific subgroups of students, including male and female, and various racial and ethnic groups. Research participants in FFL 100 sections for Exploratory majors (Arts and Sciences Undecided) will invited to voluntarily complete the online survey. The survey will be administered via Qualtrics by the principal investigator and students will be required to agree to an informed consent statement before completing the survey.

Regulatory and other findings:

 This research meets criteria for waiver of a signed consent form according to 45 CFR 46.117(c)(2).

 The IRB requirement that all consent documents used in the enrollment process display the IRB approval stamp is waived for this study.

Modification Information:

 A modification is being submitted in order to add an additional reminder email to be sent to the sample of FFL 100 students invited to participate in the study (in total, one invitation and two reminders will be sent). In addition, one minor edit was made to the first reminder email. The attachment 'email recruitment' file includes all of the aforesaid modifications.

Investigator’s Responsibilities

Please be aware that any changes to your protocol must be reviewed by the IRB prior to being implemented. Please utilize the most recent and approved version of your consent form/information sheet when enrolling participants. The IRB will maintain records for this study for three years from the date of the original determination of exempt status.

Signed letters, along with stamped copies of consent forms and other recruitment materials will be scanned to you in a separate email. Stamped consent forms must be used unless the IRB has given you approval to waive this

requirement. Please notify the ORI office immediately if you have an issue with the stamped consents forms.

Please be aware that valid human subjects training and signed statements of confidentiality for all members of research team need to be kept on file with the lead investigator. Please note that you will also need to remain in compliance with

the university “Access to and Retention of Research Data” Policy which can be found at http://policy.uncg.edu/university‐policies/research_data/.

CC: