Institutional Transformation: Cultivating an ethical STEM culture through an integrated undergraduate general education

这个项目将研究大学范围内伦理推理课程的实施和有效性。该项目将确定和评估弗吉尼亚理工大学“通识教育之路”中出现的道德教育文化。该项目将对制度转型进行系统分析。它将重点关注STEM伦理文化，将伦理推理的实施追溯到新的普通教育课程中。这项研究将评估这种方法在其他机构中的可转移性。该项目将有助于拓宽学生学习领域以外的专业知识，并提供将转移到工作场所的能力。将为教职员工开发暑期研习班、网络研讨会、在线培训模块和讲习班，以促进教学和开展STEM时的伦理考虑。这一项目的发现将引起教职员工、学生、大学管理人员和企业的兴趣。该项目将包括对弗吉尼亚理工大学一项新课程计划的有效性进行多管齐下的评估。它将了解在其实施中明显的个人、集体和机构过程的动态；并测试ABCD变革理论在这一变革努力中所采用的整体效用。该项目有四类预期影响：1)对教师伦理学教学能力的直接改善的评估，2)对学生伦理学学习能力的评估，3)对R1 STEM重点大学的伦理氛围变化的估计，以及4)将该项目的研究结果和最佳实践传播给其他机构。该项目将通过访谈、调查和参与者观察收集定性和定量数据。

This project will study the implementation and effectiveness of a university wide ethical reasoning curriculum. The project will identify and assess the culture of ethics education that emerges from "Pathways to General Education" at Virginia Tech. The project will do a systematic analysis of institutional transformation. It will focus on the culture of STEM ethics by tracing the implementation of ethical reasoning into a new general education curriculum. The research will evaluate the transferability of this approach to other institutions. The project will contribute to broadening students' expertise beyond their field of study and to provide competencies that will transfer to the workplace. Summer institutes, webinars, on-line training modules and workshops will be developed for faculty to promote ethical considerations in teaching and doing STEM. The findings of this project will be of interest to faculty members, students, university administrators and businesses. The project will include multi-pronged evaluations of the efficacy of a new curriculum program at Virginia Tech. It will understand the dynamics of the individual, collective, and institutional processes evident in their implementation; and test the overall utility of the ABCD theory of change as employed in this transformation effort. There are four categories of anticipated impacts from this project: 1) evaluation for direct improvement in faculty ethics teaching competency, 2) evaluation of students' ethics learning competency, 3) estimation of changes to ethical climate in an R1 STEM focused university, and 4) dissemination of findings and best practices from this project's research to other institutions. The project will collect qualitative and quantitative data through interviews, surveys and participant observation.