Potential Success of Student-Athletes

Informed Consent Form

The following research project is being conducted to study how student-athletes feel about their potential success as college students. You are being asked to complete a survey regarding your view and opinion of the various facets of being a student athlete and how it has affected your potential success as a college student.  This survey will take no more than couple of minutes of your time.

Your participation in this survey is voluntary.  If at any time you wish not to participate in this study, simply exit the survey. There is no tracking system to ascertain who opted in or who opted out of the survey.

The data that are collected from course participants will be used to evaluate the potential success of student-athletes as college students.  The information retrieved from this survey hopes to be used as a resource to raise the academic progress and success of student-athletes.  Data from all the survey completers may be published in an educational technology journal, or similar academic publication, and/or presented at a conference. Your identity will in no way be published or presented, however.  All records will be kept in strictest confidence.  The individual surveys are anonymous and the return of the surveys is not connected to the email accounts of individuals or other personal contact information.

There has never been a survey of this type at Palomar College, and it would be very beneficial to the athletic department staff and the general student-athlete population to determine the potential success of student-athletes in order to improve this potential and create a more comfortable and supportive learning environment.  There have been reports similar to the study that I am administering here at Palomar at other campuses across the nation that illustrates the importance of the relationship between athletics and academic success.  The aim of this study and survey is to determine how Palomar student-athletes relate to the association of academics and athletics.    This survey hopes to add to the limited knowledge of how student’s perceive themselves and how being a student-athlete is helping or hurting their overall potential academic success. 

If you have any questions about this research study please contact:

Sean Sovacool

Adjunct Instructor Assistant Football Coach

Athletic Study Hall Coordinator

Palomar College

1140 West Mission Road

San Marcos, CA 92069

Phone: 760-744-1150 x3649

                                    Email: ssovacool@palomar.edu

Questions regarding your rights as a research subject should be addressed to

Dr. Steve Suter

Research Ethics Review Coordinator

Department of Psychology

California State University, Bakersfield

9001 Stockdale Highway

Bakersfield, CA 93311-1099

Phone:  661-664-2373

If you sustain an type of injury, mental or physical during the study, please contact:  Sean Sovacool (Principal Investigator, Athletics/Physical Education Department 760-744-1150 x3649), Dr. Penelope Swenson (Advisor, Advanced Educational Studies Department, 661-664-3030), Dr. Louis Wildman, (Chair, Advanced Educational Studies Department, 661-654-3047) or Dr. Steve Suter (Research Ethics Review Coordinator, 661-644-2373).

FIRST SURVEY QUESTION:
“I affirm that I have read and understood this form, and I agree to participate in the survey and allow the data to be used for research purposes (publications/presentations).”  - Please print a copy of this form and the information for your records. 

The first question on the survey requires a yes or no to be a participant.  If you wish to not participate with this survey you need not go any further then the first question.  This is your opportunity to opt out of it at any time.