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Ethical principles regarding the research participation of undergraduate students in a required psychology course were formulated, implemented, and evaluated over 3 semesters. Because S participation was in essence voluntary and dependent on the experimenter's decision to solicit certain course sections and because explanation of the research was given to Ss, it was not possible to design studies, draw a random sample, and assign Ss to a treatment condition. Overall, few problems were found. Few students chose not to participate. 71% of Ss felt participation was a valuable learning experience, and this assessment was more likely when an explanation of the experiment had been given to Ss. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
