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Evaluation & Assessment
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Bibliography
This bibliography includes resources for assessing students' competence in ethics as well as for evaluating the effectiveness of ethics instruction.
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The Engineering and Science Issues Test (ESIT): A Discipline-Specific Approach to Assessing Moral Judgment
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Article
Authors: Jason Borenstein, Matthew J. Drake, Robert Kirkman and Julie L. Swann
The authors of this article have developed a new tool to measure moral judgment built around technical delemmas in science and engineering.
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Peer Reviewed Research Offering Validation of Effective and Innovative Teaching (PR2OVE-IT)
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This digital clearinghouse aims to summarize the available research on educational interventions designed to enhance student learning, retention, and professional success in post-secondary engineering and other allied sciences. It includes a section on "Understanding Professional and Ethical Responsibility" as well as "Ethics and Moral Reasoning" under the "Learning Outcomes and Assesment" category.
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NIH Update on the Requirement for Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research
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Policy
This NIH Notice updates NIH policy on RCR instruction. The purpose is also to "convey some of the consensus best practices that have evolved in the research training community over the past two decades, and to provide access to additional information that may be useful to institutions and individuals in meeting their obligations under NIH policy." Note that "While on-line courses can be a valuable supplement to instruction in responsible conduct of research, online instruction is not considered adequate as the sole means of instruction. A plan that employs only online coursework for instruction in responsible conduct of research will not be considered acceptable, except in special instances of short-term training programs (see below), or unusual and well-justified circumstances."
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Developing Metrics for Assessing Engineering Instruction: What Gets Measured is What Gets Improved
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Evaluation tool
A Report from the Steering Committee for Evaluating Instructional Scholarship in Engineering; National Academy of Engineering. Developing Metrics for Assessing Engineering Instructio provides a concise description of a process to develop and institute a valid and acceptable means of measuring teaching effectiveness in order to foster greater acceptance and rewards for faculty efforts to improve their performance of the teaching role that makes up a part of their faculty responsibility. Although the focus of this book is in the area of engineering, the concepts and approaches are applicable to all fields in higher education.
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CGS PSI Resources for assessment
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The Council of Graduate Schools Project for Scholarly Integrity website has multiple useful resources. A search under the assessment heading yields resources grouped by 'Program Assessment', 'Learning Assessment', and 'Climate Assessment'.
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E3 Publications on Undergraduate Cheating
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The Exploring Ethical Decision-Making in Engineering (E3) project began in 2000 and aims to understand the underlying causes of academic dishonesty in engineering undergraduates. Their website includes a publication list with numerous references describing their analysis of this type of behavior in undergraduate populations.
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Assessment and Evaluation of Ethics Education and Mentoring
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Evaluation tool
This report is the fifth chapter of the workshop summary on Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research: What's Been Learned? What Should be Done? Questions examined include: Are relevant and important materials and techniques reaching the appropriate audiences? Who are the appropriate audiences, and are there useful feedback loops from them to the developers of materials, techniques, and guidance? Are the audiences able to adapt or adopt these resources? What efforts might improve access, use, and feedback and improvement? What kinds of assessment have been developed, make sense, or should be encouraged for the future? What have we learned, and what do we need to learn? The entire workshop summary can be downloaded from the CEES webpage.
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The Contrary Research Environment: What is RCR Instruction Up Against?
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In this presentation Melissa Anderson discusses how RCR training may actually affect behavior.