Institutional Review Board

• Promote and support professional ethical standards across a range of disciplines through review of planned research.
• Facilitate opportunities for investigators to pursue research funding and to meet externally-required review processes.

We are happy to consult with researchers in designing ethical research; please feel free to contact any IRB committee member or write to irb@dordt.edu.

• Our purpose
• Our policies and review process
• Types of review
  • Review of projects involving human participants
  • Review of projects involving animal subjects

• Instructions (review process, checklist for new and continuing research proposals)
• Proposing research form for researchers
• Consent form checklist and sample forms (forms for adults, parents, and children)

Again, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact any IRB committee member or write to irb@dordt.edu.