Ethical and Responsible Practices for Research Participant Demographic Information

被招募参加研究的个人经常被要求透露他们的种族信息。一些研究参与者，包括那些不认同标准报告类别的人，可能认为人口统计问题不能准确地反映他们的身份。该项目将制定收集和报告研究参与者种族信息的策略。项目结果将为研究人员提供指导，使他们能够以更尊重研究参与者的方式提出问题，并更有可能产生关于种族身份的准确和可靠的信息。该项目的总体目标是促进道德和负责任的研究实践，以收集和报告有关研究参与者种族身份的信息。研究小组计划用参与者自己的话收集和分析他们的种族身份，并了解他们回答有关种族的典型人口统计学问题的经历。该团队将利用这些信息来开发和测试询问参与者比赛情况和报告这些信息的替代方法。该小组将使用具有全国代表性的参与者池的在线数据收集平台，并进行访谈和焦点小组。该项目将产生收集和报告参与者种族特征的准则以及传播这些准则的战略。该小组还计划收集研究人员的反馈，调查专业人员和其他利益相关者，并完善指导方针，这些指导方针将被每个小组采用。该项目由社会、行为和经济科学理事会通过ER2计划资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Individuals who are recruited to participate in research studies are often asked to disclose information about their race. Some research participants, including those who do not identify with a standard reporting category, may think that their identity is not accurately captured by demographic questions. This project will develop strategies for collecting and reporting information about the race of research participants. Project findings will provide guidance to researchers so that they can ask questions in ways that are more respectful of research participants and more likely to produce accurate and reliable information about racial identity. The overarching aim of the project is to promote ethical and responsible research practices for collecting and reporting information about the racial identity of research participants. The research team plans to collect and analyze participants’ racial identity in their own words and understand their experiences of answering typical demographics questions about race. The team will draw on this information to develop and test alternative ways of asking participants about their race and for reporting that information. The team will use an on-line data collection platform with a nationally representative participant pool, as well as conduct interviews and focus groups. Guidelines for collecting and reporting participants’ racial identity, as well as strategies for disseminating the guidelines, will emerge from the project. The team also plans to collect feedback from researchers, survey professionals and other stakeholders, and refine the guidelines, which will be tailored for adoption by each group.This project is funded through the ER2 program by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.