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June 18, 2013
Jaekeun Cho
Department of Educational Administration
1319 E 45th Apt F6 Kearney, NE 68845
Miles Bryant
Department of Educational Administration
133 TEAC, UNL, 68588-0360
IRB Number: 20130613502 EX
Project ID: 13502
Project Title: Understanding the Importance of English Education in South Korea and Exploring the Reasons Why
South Korean Students Come to a University in the Midwest.
Dear Jaekeun:
This letter is to officially notify you of the certification of exemption of your project by the Institutional Review Board
(IRB) for the Protection of Human Subjects. It is the Board's opinion that you have provided adequate safeguards for
the rights and welfare of the participants in this study based on the information provided. Your
proposal is in
compliance with this institution's Federal Wide Assurance 00002258 and the DHHS Regulations for the Protection of
Human Subjects (45 CFR 46) and has been classified as Exempt Category 2.
You are authorized to implement this study as of the Date of Exemption Determination: 06/18/2013.
1. Once you have the approval from UNK™s IRB, please forward a copy of the letter to me for our records.
2. The stamped and approved informed consent document has been uploaded to your form files (document with
Approved.pdf in the file name). Please use this document to distribute to participants. If you need to make changes
to the document, please submit the revised document to the IRB for review and approval prior to using it.
We wish to remind you that the principal investigator is responsible for reporting to this Board any of the following
events within 48 hours of the event:
* Any serious event (including on-site and off-site adverse events, injuries, side effects, deaths, or other problems)
which in the opinion of the local investigator was unanticipated, involved risk to subjects or others, and was possibly
related to the research procedures;
* Any serious accidental or unintentional change to the IRB-approved protocol that involves risk or
has the potential
to recur;
* Any publication in the literature, safety monitoring report, interim result or other finding that indicates an unexpected
change to the risk/benefit ratio of the research;
* Any breach in confidentiality or compromise in data privacy related to the subject or others; or
* Any complaint of a subject that indicates an unanticipated risk or that cannot be resolved by the research staff.
This project should be conducted in full accordance with all applicable sections of the IRB Guidelines and you should
notify the IRB immediately of any proposed changes that may affect the exempt status of your research project. You
should report any unanticipated problems involving risks to the participants or others to the Board.
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If you have any questions, please contact the IRB office at 472-6965.
Sincerely,
Becky R. Freeman, CIP
for
the IRB