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Intellectual Property and Copyright of Assessment Items

Copyrighted assessment item upload to the FIRST Assessment Database does not fall under the fair-use category. Permission to upload copyrighted items must be granted from individual copyright holders. For more information, review the notes from our meeting with the head copyright librarian at Michigan State University.

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Intellectual Property Rights

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Fair use of copyrighted materials

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IRB/FERPA issues and possible solutions

Issue	Possible Resolution	Within the scope of this funding round?
Many institutions will not allow faculty to upload data without IRB training and review	Institutional IRB review of database that would give a blanket green light to faculty to upload data	Unsure
Anonymizing student identifiers	Hashing student identifiers during upload Return all queries with anonymous data There must be the ability to link student data in one course to other courses and to demographic data Data will be linked at the time of query -- there will be no way to link data among multiple queries	Yes
Mistakes or mismatches in uploaded data from Time 1 to Time 2	Show unhashed information to uploading faculty member and allow for corrections	Unsure
Uploading files of student work and maintaining anonynmity	Uploading faculty member takes responsibility for de-identifying open-ended student responses	Yes
Institutional authorization for faculty use (models of distribution)		No
Data Security	Federated model
Data access	Multiple levels of access 1. Access only to 'my' data 2. Public data - available to anyone. At this time, public data will need to be vetted by a human	Yes
Institution anonymity	Anonymize institutions; further access would require a third party to contact the original data submitter	No
Instructor anonymity	Anonymize instructur; further access would require a third party to contact the original data submitter	No

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