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IRB Quiz

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Understand whether your project may involve IRB-relevant research and human involvement in about 10 minutes. Free and no sign-up, it offers a quick educational score to support early planning before you check with your IRB.
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How the Scales are Structured

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6/15
Generalizable Knowledge Intent (GKI)
This scale measures how strongly the project is intended to generate knowledge that applies beyond a single immediate local decision or setting.
Local-purpose emphasis
Mixed intent
Broader-knowledge emphasis
05: Local-purpose emphasis | 610: Mixed intent | 1115: Broader-knowledge emphasis
A score of 6 suggests mixed intent, combining local improvement aims with some interest in lessons that may be applicable beyond the original setting.
example score
7/15
Human-Participant Connection (HPC)
Measures how strongly your project connects to living individuals via interaction, intervention, or identifiable private information or biospecimens.
Indirect connection
Potential connection
Direct connection
05: Indirect connection | 610: Potential connection | 1115: Direct connection
A score of 7 suggests a potential connection to human participants, such as possible contact or use of coded or individual-level information that may require institutional interpretation.
example score
12/15
Systematic Investigation (SI)
Measures how strongly the project resembles an organized, planned investigation with defined procedures and analysis.
Limited structure
Developing structure
Strong structure
05: Limited structure | 610: Developing structure | 1115: Strong structure
A score of 12 indicates the project shows strong structure, with a defined question and planned procedures, selection logic, and analysis.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Graduate student researchers
41%OF USERS
Students planning theses or dissertation projects use it to sanity-check whether their study likely counts as human subjects research and needs IRB review.
Faculty and lab teams
34%OF USERS
Investigators and research staff take it when scoping a new protocol to see if activities involve identifiable data, interaction, or intervention that could trigger IRB requirements.
Program evaluation staff
25%OF USERS
People running quality improvement or program evaluations use it to gauge whether their work could be considered generalizable research versus internal operations.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Generalizable Knowledge Intent (GKI)
Generalizable Knowledge Intent (GKI)
Average
9.4
Normal range
711.8
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Human-Participant Connection (HC)
Human-Participant Connection (HC)
Average
4.6
Normal range
1.97.4
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Systematic Investigation (SI)
Systematic Investigation (SI)
Average
10.9
Normal range
912.8
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

    • An internal operational note documenting a decision for the local team.
    • A local report that describes what happened without developing broader claims.
    • A report for local use that also compares the findings with wider practice or evidence.
    • A scholarly or public analysis designed to contribute a broadly relevant conclusion, model, or method.
    • To generate conclusions intended to inform a broader population, practice, or body of knowledge.
    • To understand one local experience and preserve a useful record of it.
    • To make a specific internal operational decision, without drawing conclusions beyond it.
    • To improve a local program while also identifying lessons that could apply in similar settings.
    • We know the general type of summary we may use, but details will be chosen after seeing the information.
    • An analysis plan connects defined variables, observations, or themes to the project question.
    • We have identified the main information to examine and a broad method for comparing or organizing it.
    • No analysis is intended beyond ordinary case review or informal discussion.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES
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IRB Quiz - Symptoms and Signs

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Use this free, no-sign-up IRB quiz to examine whether your project shows both core features commonly considered in an IRB determination: research designed as a systematic investigation that contributes to generalizable knowledge, and involvement of living individuals through interaction, intervention, or identifiable private information or biospecimens. Scores are educational reflections—not legal or institutional determinations—and do not establish exemption. Rules vary, so contact your IRB or research office before recruitment, intervention, or access to private data.

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