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There is little ethical concern at work in the proposed research, as no subjects in the research study will be asked to do anything other than respond to surveys and/or interviews honestly (there are no expected psychological ramifications of study participation, as in the famous Milgram obedience experiment) (Cozby, 2009). maintaining confidentiality and privacy through the maintenance of anonymity, especially within the institutions where the surveys and questionnaires are distributed/administered, is the essential ethical concern of this research study. Individual identification of participants in the qualitative experiment is not required, making anonymity easy to maintain (identifying information will be specifically excluded from the quantitative instruments, and stripped away by research assistants if mistakenly applied y the respondent); for the qualitative interviews, responses will be coded and stored separately from identifying information, with extremely limited access to this information.

Integrity

According to Teddlie and Tashakkori (2003, in Cozby, 2009), inference quality is achieved through "design quality and interpretive rigor" (pp. 286). Design quality in the proposed research will be maintained through the use of subject area experts in the development and testing of research instruments. Interpretive rigor will be the result of repeated statistical analysis and independent analyses of qualitative results, including regression analysis and subjective analysis.