Professional Values and Ethical Issues in the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers

该项目将完成数据分析并准备一系列关于研究生教育中的伦理和价值观的出版物，涉及四个领域：化学、土木工程、微生物学和社会学。该项目由美国科学促进会科学自由与责任委员会、研究生院理事会和Sigma Xi共同发起，自1987年以来一直在进行。主要研究焦点包括博士生及其教师所持有的职业价值观和道德标准的性质和传递，以及在这四个学科的研究生教育计划中发生的道德问题和价值冲突的类型。这项研究的结果和建议将基于对四组项目数据的比较和关联分析：(1)1988年对研究生院院长进行的关于大学政策和研究和研究生教育中的伦理问题的全国调查，(2)1990年对在主要研究型大学四个学科的系/项目注册的2,000名博士生的全国调查，(3)1991年对系/项目的2,000名教职员工的调查，这些系/项目的学生在1990年被调查，(4)一组78次深入访谈，从60到120分钟不等，1991-1992年期间，在三所主要研究型大学的八个系的四个学科的研究生和教职员工中进行了调查。

This project will complete data analyses and prepare a series of publications on ethics and values in graduate education in four fields: chemistry, civil engineering, microbiology, and sociology. The project, which is co-sponsored by the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, the Council of Graduate Schools, and Sigma Xi, has been underway since 1987. Major research foci include the nature and transmission of professional values and ethical standards held by doctoral students and their faculty and the types of ethical problems and value conflicts that occur in the context of graduate education programs in the four disciplines. The study's findings and recommendations will be based on comparative and associational analyses of four sets of project data: (1) a 1988 national survey of graduate school deans concerning university policies and ethical issues in research and graduate education, (2) a 1990 national survey of 2,000 doctoral students enrolled in departments/programs in the four disciplines at major research universities, (3) a 1991 survey of 2,000 graduate school faculty in the departments/programs whose students were surveyed in 1990, and (4) a set of 78 in-depth interviews, ranging from 60 to 120 minutes, conducted during 1991-1992 with graduate students and faculty in the four disciplines at eight departments in three major research universities.