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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.
Intellectual Property Rights
Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing Issues
US Copyright Information
MSU Copyright policy
Fair use of copyrighted materials
Creative Commons
| Issue | Possible Resolution | Within the scope of this funding round? |
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| 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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