APPENDIX B
INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD LETTER


W        Institutional Review Board
         UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA


PO Box 112250
Gainesville, FL 32611-2250
352-392-0433 (Phone)
352-392-9234 (Fax)
irh2rufl.edu


August 12, 2009


TO:          Lacey Cupp
             t2 MrlF 11th Ctrrat


FROM:


Gainesville, FL 32609
Ira S. Fischler, PhD; ChairJ'S
University of Florida
Institutional Review Board 02


SUBJECT:     Approval of Protocol #2009-U-0824


TITLE:


The Effect of Color Materials on Student Performance of Music Composition


SPONSOR:     None

I am pleased to advise you that the University of Florida Institutional Review Board has
recommended approval of this protocol. Based on its review, the UFIRB determined that this
research presents no more than minimal risk to participants. Your protocol was approved as
an expedited study under category 7: Research on individual or group characteristics or
behavior (including, but not limited to, research on perception, cognition, motivation,
identity, language, communication, cultural beliefs or practices, and social behavior) or
research employing survey, interview, oral history, focus group, program evaluation, human
factors evaluation, or quality assurance methodologies. Given your protocol, it is essential
that you obtain signed documentation of informed consent from the parent or Legal guardian
of each participant. When it is feasible, you should obtain signatures from both parents.
Enclosed is the dated, IRB-approved informed consent to be used when recruiting participants
for the research.

  It is essential that the parents/guardians of your minor participants sign a copy of
  your approved informed consent that bears the IRB approval stamp and expiration
  date.


If you wish to make any changes to this protocol, including the need to increase the number
of participants authorized, you must disclose your plans before you implement them so that
the Board can assess their impact on your protocol. In addition, you must report to the Board
any unexpected complications that affect your participants.

The approval of this study is valid through August 11. 2010. If you have not completed the
study by this date, please telephone our office (392-0433), and we will discuss the renewal
process with you. It is important that you keep your Department Chair informed about the
status of this research protocol.

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