Step 5. Determine what clearances you will need for gathering your data, then go about seeking them from the appropriate people.

Your Institutional Review Board advises you that it is not necessary to get clearances from the teachers' gatekeepers (i.e., their principals) because the questionnaires will come to the teachers at their home addresses and they will not fill them out during the teaching day. However, the Board asks that you state in writing to the teachers what the purpose of the evaluation is, that their names will be kept confidential, and that they need not respond to any or all of the questions.