 During this module, we will be talking about exempt research. This is very important to understand what is meant by exempt research. Exempt research is any research which involves human subjects and study participants that meet specific criteria and fall into one of either the six categories which we are going to discuss today. Now, in exempt research, the involvement of human participants can be different. Either we are making them part of a procedure, either we are interviewing them, either we are taking an opinion of them, or we are taking a medical procedure of them. So all these researches could be included into exempt research. It must be initially reviewed by IRP, but then exempt from further review. In which settings we will examine? Educational setting and practices. Research on regular or special education strategies, effectiveness of institutional techniques, curricula or class management. These are the types which are included under educational settings and they are also called as exempt research. Then educational test, survey, interviews and observations. Now, as we are talking in general, we need to take feedback from the students about their teacher's performance. Either they are satisfied with that specific course that would also be included into exempt research. Research that only includes interaction involving the use of educational test, surveys, procedures, interviews, or observation of public behavior is also exempt. If at least one of the three criteria are met, what are those three criteria? The first one is to identify the participation that it is not disclosed outside the research. I mean like, if you have conducted any survey and it's anonymous and your feedback is not open to the public, then you can include that as an exempt research. Then disclosure of responses outside research would not place participant at risk of criminal or civil liability or damage to financial standing or reputation. So, if there is no such cases involved, then you can consider that research as exempt research. Then information obtained is recorded by investigator in such a manner that identity of participants can be discovered readily if needed. Like would disclose to hair, but it has that kind of identity that if you want to discover that at any point of time, you can discover that is also the third point which includes that it's a criteria for exempt research. Then research involving benign behavior intervention. Like the behavioral interventions which has, you know, that are very mild and they do not create any kind of significant change in person's behavior or call benign behavioral intervention. Benign behavioral interventions are brief in duration, they are very harmless, they are very painless and not physically invasive and not likely to have an adverse lasting impact on the participants. Let's say, I am doing a research in which I want to see that the participants, the puzzles, how much time duration they can effectively solve if there is no music distraction. This is kind of a benign behavioral intervention in which they are not having any harm, they are not having any problem, it's not physically invasive, they are just doing that puzzle and that puzzle is only seen with the distraction of music that they are solving it quickly or they are getting facilitation or they are having any distraction. It has no reason to think that the participant will find anything offensive or embarrassing. So, this is not a kind of a situation in which there is any embarrassment in which there is any kind of any kind of an offensive feel but it is a simple, normal, natural or a very non-problematic situation where there can be interventions. Given an example that a study that involves asking participants to play an online game that takes 30 minutes to complete. So, you know, the challenge could be that the game is longer one that may not be able to be completed in 30 minutes or there would be different tasks involving game which may increase or decrease the length of the game. So, you know, this is something which is called a benign behavioral intervention. Then a study that involves asking participants to solve puzzles under various noise condition in a brief time limit. Let's say that there is a lot of noise and you give them the task to complete in a limited time period whereas you find that that time is very, you know, short and because of distraction many of the participants may not be able to do that but some of them would be able to do that but it's not going to create any harm to them. It's not going to create any kind of shame and fear into them. So, these kind of experiments are called benign behavioral intervention and for the beginners in the School of Psychology we appreciate that the students do take participation into behavioral interventions which are benign in nature because they give them the kind of the idea that they are actually doing experimental research in different settings and yet they are not going to violate any kind of the ethical issue and that is something which is called a win-win situation to a student of psychology.