ACE Ed.d program dissertation

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If your dissertation includes research on human subjects, including surveys, questionnaires, and interviews, it typically requires IRB approval! The meta-analysis or review of the literature usually does not require an IRB approval process unless it uses databases with confidential human subject data. Of course, the institution has policies, and the doctoral process should go through all of them.

I included a link to the American College of Education repository of dissertations if this is the school you are interested in. If you take a moment to download a PDF of a dissertation and go to the appendix, you will clearly see that the doctoral candidate obtained IRB approval for their dissertation from an ACE IRB board.
https://scholarworks.ace.edu/server/api/...c6/content
page 116 Appendix G

My primary experience involves years of clinical research and not much in the area of social research.
However, I recommend the human research protection training by the US Department of Health and Human Services, with a printable certificate: https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/education-and-o...index.html

It is all about protecting human subjects! My doctoral project was a "review of the literature" because the school I attended did not have an IRB at the time, but that is a whole different story!