Collaborative Research: Assessing Individual Ethical Reasoning and Team Ethical Climate: Understanding their Relationship in Undergraduate Design Teams

合作研究：评估个人道德推理和团队道德氛围：了解它们在本科生设计团队中的关系

• 批准号: 1122390
• 负责人: Mary Raber
• 金额: $ 2.98万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1122390&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Assessing; Individual; Ethical

Engineers in today's global society are interacting with ever more of the world's peoples and cultures which is introducing more social and ethical complexity to the profession and raising the importance of practicing engineers becoming capable ethical-decision makers and contributors to ethical team climates. Engineering educators are responsible for helping students to develop these skills in order to facilitate their transfer into practice. The ultimate project goal is to develop students' ethical reasoning skills and equip them to guide themselves through the complexities of today's global, team-based engineering profession. A barrier is the difficulty of assessing skills development in this area. In particular there is a paucity of assessment measures for engineering students. Measures designed to assess general moral development are not intended to address the peculiarities of handling ethical situations in engineering. In addition, because most undergraduates learn to apply ethical reasoning to engineering through design courses that are taught in teams, knowledge of the interaction between individual ethical development and the team climate, as well as individual and team factors, is vital to design effective learning environments. The goal of this project is to fill this gap through research by 1) developing instruments which reliably and validly measure individual ethical reasoning and team ethical climate, 2) tracking the growth of ethical reasoning in undergraduate student design teams, and 3) investigating the relationship between individual ethical reasoning and team ethical climate, including how individual and group factors or characteristics affect change in students' ethical reasoning and in team climate. The outcomes of the project will ultimately provide faculty with tools to assess individual ethical development and team climate as well as provide insights and lessons learned from design experiences at four diverse institutions that will provide broad applicability of the findings. Intellectual Merit This project is filling a void in current assessment tools by providing valid and reliable measures applicable for engineering-centered and multidisciplinary design teams. The project is working to produce validated assessment tools as well as analyses of individual students and teams across four diverse programs. The intended outcomes of this project are validated measures that are applicable to a broad range of institutions. Broader Impacts The findings of this research have potential impacts across engineering education and beyond. The results of this research will help identify the specific types of experiences that best support development of ethical reasoning and team ethical climate, allowing faculty and administrators to strategically scale and optimize curriculum and programs to provide more students with higher quality experiences.

当今全球社会的工程师正在与更多世界的民族和文化互动，这些人民和文化正在为职业带来更多的社会和道德复杂性，并提高了实践工程师成为道德团队气候的有能力的道德决策者和贡献者的重要性。 工程教育者有责任帮助学生发展这些技能，以促进他们的转移。最终的项目目标是发展学生的道德推理能力，并使他们能够指导自己度过当今全球，基于团队的工程专业的复杂性。 障碍是评估该领域技能发展的困难。特别是对于工程专业的学生而言，评估措施很少。 旨在评估一般道德发展的措施并非旨在解决处理工程道德情况的特殊性。此外，由于大多数大学生都学会通过在团队中教授的设计课程将道德推理应用于工程学，因此了解个人道德发展与团队气候之间的相互作用以及个人和团队因素，对设计有效的学习环境至关重要。 The goal of this project is to fill this gap through research by 1) developing instruments which reliably and validly measure individual ethical reasoning and team ethical climate, 2) tracking the growth of ethical reasoning in undergraduate student design teams, and 3) investigating the relationship between individual ethical reasoning and team ethical climate, including how individual and group factors or characteristics affect change in students' ethical reasoning and in team climate.该项目的结果最终将为教师提供评估个人道德发展和团队氛围的工具，并提供从四个不同机构的设计经验中学到的见解和经验教训，这些经验将为调查结果提供广泛的适用性。智力优点该项目通过提供适用于以工程为中心和多学科设计团队的有效和可靠的措施来填补当前评估工具中的空白。该项目正在努力生产经过验证的评估工具，并对四个不同计划的个人学生和团队进行分析。该项目的预期结果是适用于广泛机构的验证措施。更广泛的影响这项研究的结果在工程教育及其他地区都会产生潜在的影响。这项研究的结果将有助于确定最能支持道德推理和团队道德氛围发展的特定类型的体验，从而使教师和管理人员能够在战略上扩展和优化课程和计划，从而为更多的学生提供更高质量的经验。