Workshop: Assessing Ethics Education Interventions in Science and Engineering: Washington, D.C., August 2019

近十年来，国家科学基金会一直要求接受NSF资助的博士后、研究生和本科生接受伦理学培训，并进行负责任的研究，但关于最有效的伦理学教育方法，仍有许多需要了解。讲习班参加者将拟定一套研究问题，以促进对道德操守培训举措的评估，然后开会回答这些问题，并促进与道德操守培训评估有关的集体理解和做法。研讨会的成果将有助于建立一个更坚实的证据基础，以提高伦理敏感性，澄清伦理决策，并培养研究完整性的文化。本研讨会将增进对影响研究伦理决策的因素的知识，以及如何系统地评估研究伦理培训倡议的效果。资助活动将围绕几个研究问题的答案进行组织。这些问题包括：(1)道德教育干预应该达到什么目标？(2)哪些技能是道德决策的关键？3)道德教育干预如何在个人、小团体和机构层面促进诚信文化？(4)我们如何最好地评估不同类型道德教育干预的效果和效率？研讨会参与者将合作回答这些问题，并提高我们为促进研究伦理而制定和公平评估下一代干预措施的能力。结果将通过会议记录和出版物传播，而工具和评估规则将通过在线道德中心共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

For nearly a decade the National Science Foundation has required training in ethics and responsible conduct of research for postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates who receive NSF funding, but much remains to be learned about the kinds of approaches to ethics education that are the most effective. Workshop participants will formulate a set of research questions for advancing the assessment of ethics training initiatives and then meet to answer these questions and advance collective understanding and practice related to ethics training assessments. Workshop results will contribute to developing a more robust evidence base for improving ethical sensitivity, clarifying ethical decision making, and fostering cultures of research integrity.This workshop will improve knowledge of factors affecting ethical decision making in research and of how to systematically assess the efficacy of research ethics training initiatives. Grant activities will be organized around developing answers to several research questions. These include: (1) What goals should ethics education interventions aim to achieve? (2) Which skills are essential to ethical decision making? 3) How can ethics education interventions contribute to a culture of integrity at the level of the individual, small group, and institution? (4) How can we best assess the efficacy and efficiency of different types of ethics education interventions? Workshop participants will collaborate to answer these questions and increase our ability to build and fairly assess next generation interventions for promoting research ethics. Results will be disseminated via conference proceedings and publications, while tools and assessment rubrics will be shared through The Online Ethics Center.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.