AAA |
American Anthropological Association |
ACM |
Association for Computing Machinery |
ADRC |
Administrative Data Research Centers |
ANDS |
Australian National Data Service |
ANPRM |
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
AoIR |
Association of Internet Researchers |
CCTV |
closed-circuit television |
C.F.R. 46 |
Code of Federal Regulations Title 45 Public Welfare Department of Health and Human Services Part 46 Protection of Human Subjects |
CIRB |
Central Institutional Review Board |
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
FWA |
Federalwide Assurance for the Protection of Human Subjects |
GPS |
global positioning system |
HHS |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
HIPAA |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
HIV |
human immunodeficiency virus |
IACUC |
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee |
ICPSR |
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research |
IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IRB |
institutional review board |
LGBTQ |
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning |
MOOC |
massive open online course |
NCES |
National Center for Education Statistics |
NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NORC |
National Opinion Research Center |
NRC |
National Research Council |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
OHRP |
Office for Human Research Protections (formerly OPRR) |
QA |
quality assurance |
QI |
quality improvement |
SACHRP |
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections |
SRCD |
Society for Research in Child Development |