For Parents
We are currently recruiting and administering questionnaires for The CARE Early Adolescent Study.
Information for Participating Families
If you are a parent whose child is a participant in our research, you have a unique opportunity to have your child's voice heard by our community of dedicated experts and researchers in child development. Our goal is to gain a deeper and better understanding of children's experiences with their peers and to apply this knowledge to improve children's social, emotional, and intellectual development. Thank you so much for joining us in our mission!
Procedure: Children are administered questionnaires by highly trained research assistants, graduate students, and faculty of ASU. Children's participation involves answering a series of questions in a small group of other students during school hours (arranged through you child's teacher and school administrators). The questionnaires are completed in a single session lasting approximately 45-60 minutes.
Parent and Teacher Questionnaires: You should receive a packet containing a permission form and questionnaire for you to complete and return to your child's teacher, sealed in the provided envelope. Your child's teacher will also be asked to complete a short questionnaire about your child.
Psychological/Emotional Impact of the Questions: The safety and well-being of our participants is of the utmost importance. All of our procedures are in strict adherence with the policies of ASU's Human Subjects Institutional Review Board (IRB). We have extensive experience conducting research in schools and all of our interviewers have been fingerprinted and have fingerprint clearance cards.
Voluntary Participation: Children's participation is completely voluntary. Children may decline to participate even if their parents gave them permission to participate, and they may withdraw from the study at any point without penalty.
Research Findings: This project that will likely result in numerous publications in scholarly journals in the fields of developmental and educational psychology. However, the publication process is a long one, and it can easily take 1-2 years for a paper to be published, if not longer. Therefore, although we plan to share our results with the academic community and beyond, we are unable to provide results on a shorter time frame.