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

这个项目将研究大学伦理推理课程的实施和有效性。该项目将识别和评估弗吉尼亚理工大学“通识教育之路”中出现的伦理教育文化。该项目将对制度转型进行系统分析。它将通过在新的通识教育课程中跟踪道德推理的实施，重点关注STEM伦理文化。这项研究将评估这种方法在其他机构的可转移性。该项目将有助于拓宽学生的专业知识，超越他们的研究领域，并提供将转移到工作场所的能力。将为教师开发暑期学院、网络研讨会、在线培训模块和讲习班，以促进STEM教学和实践中的道德考虑。该项目的研究结果将引起教师、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新课程的有效性进行多管齐下的评估。它将了解在实施过程中个人、集体和机构过程的动态；并测试在此转换工作中所采用的ABCD变化理论的整体效用。本项目预计将产生四类影响：1)评估教师道德教学能力的直接改善，2)评估学生的道德学习能力，3)评估R1 STEM重点大学的道德氛围变化，以及4)将本项目的研究成果和最佳实践传播到其他机构。本项目将通过访谈、调查和参与观察等方式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.