INFORMATION AND CONSENT
You are invited to participate in a research study of Radboud University, the Netherlands. Your participation in the study is voluntary and anonymous.
Outline and aim of the research study
We want to evaluate the efficacy of a new Spanish proficiency test that can be used in research and education. By comparing our test to standards in the field, we can validate its use.
Who is conducting the research study?
This research is conducted by Jytte Beelen, Master thesis student from Linguistics programme supervised by Lieke van Maastricht and Aurora Troncoso Ruiz.
What does participation in the study entail?
In this study you will fill out an online survey. You will start on our experiment website, where you answer general demographic questions and questions that target your knowledge of Spanish grammar. Then you will be redirected to the second part of the study (on another website), where you will answer questions targeting your reading, listening, and vocabulary skillls in Spanish. Filling out the survey will take approximately 60 minutes.
Voluntary participation
Your participation in this research is voluntary. This means that you can stop your participation and withdraw your consent at any time during the study, without giving a reason.
What data do we collect and how do we handle it?
In this study we collect research data. These will be used for scientific purposes.
The research data will be anonymous. None of the answers you give can be traced back to you.
Your research data may of interest to other scientific research. The anonymous research data will therefore be available to other scientists for at least 10 years.
In order to carry out the study, it is necessary that we collect, use and store personal data. These personal data are: your age, native language, gender, education level and any visual-auditory and learning impairments that you may have. These data will be anonymous because there is no way to trace them back exclusively to you.
All anonymous personal data will be shared with researchers outside the research team in a data repository. Personal data necessary to answer the research question will be kept for at least 10 years. All research and anonymous personal data are safely stored following the Radboud University guidelines.
Access for control purposes
Some people need to have access to your anonymous personal and research data. This is necessary to check whether the data have been stored in accordance with the rules. Persons who carry out this check are, for example, the data officer and designated data management staff at Radboud University. They will keep your data confidential.
Your consent
Your data may only be used for our study if you give permission for this.
Because the data is immediately anonymous, your research data cannot be removed after the experiment, as there is no way to distinguish your data from the data of another participant who gave the same answers about age, native language, gender, education level and visual-auditory and learning impairments.
Do you have any questions?
If you have any questions or would like more information about the research study, please contact aurora.troncosoruiz@ru.nl. For other questions about this study (e.g. data processing), please contact privacy@let.ru.nl
Ethical assessment and complaints
This research study has been approved by the Ethics Assessment Committee Humanities of Radboud University (EACH file number 2024-2683)
Should you have any complaints regarding this research, please contact the researcher.
You can also file a complaint with the secretary of the Ethics Assessment Committee Humanities of Radboud University (etc-gw@ru.nl).
CONSENT:
Clicking on the "I Agree" button below indicates that:
● you have read the above information
● you consent to participating in the research study as described in the above information
● you voluntarily agree to participate
● you understand that the research data will be available for at least 10 years for review and reuse in future scientific research.
● you agree that the data officer and designated data management staff of Radboud University may view your data.
● you understand that you have the right to withdraw your consent to the use of data from the study as described in the information document.
● you are at least 16 years of age
You also agree that:
● the following personal data will be collected, used and stored for this study: age, native language, gender, education level, and visual-auditory and learning impairments.
If you do not wish to participate in the research study, please decline participation by clicking on the "I do not want to participate" button.