{"id":4375,"date":"2024-04-11T10:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T00:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:20:20","slug":"quicksmart-ethics-information-on-parental-consent-and-update-to-student-assent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/2024\/04\/11\/quicksmart-ethics-information-on-parental-consent-and-update-to-student-assent\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickSmart Ethics: Information on Parental Consent and Update to Student Assent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <em>QuickSmart <\/em>program has recently gone through some updates regarding consent and assent for research data collection, which are summarised below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What remains the same:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no need for parental consent\nfor a child to be involved in a <em>QuickSmart<\/em> program, as this is an instructional\ndecision by the school. Parental consent is required only when providing data\nto UNE for analysis and research purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools may include student participation in <em>QuickSmart<\/em> research as part of their standard process for obtaining Standing Parental Consent, as outlined in section 4.2.10 of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (ECHR). This procedure applies to both the <em>QuickSmart<\/em> Numeracy and Literacy programs.<br> <br> That is, schools should:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>provide information sheet(s) regarding the <em>QuickSmart<\/em>\nresearch along with information about other school programs and activities\ncirculated to parents for their consent; and<ul><li>presume consent unless a parent or student\ncommunicates that they wish to opt-out or withdraw from the research.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An Information Sheet which has been approved by the University of New England Human Research Ethics Committee is provided for this purpose. You can customize this sheet for your school by adding your school&#8217;s letterhead and name. This can be downloaded from the \u201cResearch Consent Forms\u201d section of the <em>QuickSmart <\/em>Portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What has changed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 2024, Student Assent must be obtained from both <em>QuickSmart<\/em> Students and Comparison Students to confirm that they personally agree to participate in the research project. An \u2018Assent Form for Students\u2019 is provided for this purpose and can be downloaded from the \u201cResearch Consent Forms\u201d section of the <em>QuickSmart <\/em>Portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your school\u2019s <em>QuickSmart<\/em> personnel should ask the student to fill out the Student Assent Form before the program starts, ensuring it&#8217;s completed right before their pre-tests. Schools should retain the completed Student Assent Forms for the duration of the research project (2024-2026). DO NOT send the forms to SiMERR\/<em>QuickSmart<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After obtaining both Standing Parental\nConsent and Student Assent, please update the student&#8217;s profile on the Portal\nto reflect their consent status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\nQuickSmart in Schools project has been approved by the Human Research Ethics\nCommittee of the University of New England (Approval No. HE23-191, Valid to\n18\/12\/2026).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Information Sheets and Consent\/Assent Forms can be downloaded from the \u201cResearch Consent Forms\u201d section of the <em>QuickSmart <\/em>Portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The QuickSmart program has recently gone through some updates regarding consent and assent for research data collection, which are summarised below: What remains the same: There is no need for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/2024\/04\/11\/quicksmart-ethics-information-on-parental-consent-and-update-to-student-assent\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,9,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-upload","category-office-administration","category-ozcaas","category-quicksmart-literacy","category-quicksmart-numeracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simerr.une.edu.au\/quicksmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}