Collaborative Research: Project Incubation - New Jersey Institute of Technology Campus Alignment Review of Ethics

合作研究：项目孵化 - 新泽西理工学院校园伦理道德审查

• 批准号: 2124943
• 负责人: Deni Elliott
• 金额: $ 4.48万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-11-01 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124943&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Project; Incubation; New

Today’s US citizens need to be competent evaluators of scientific and technical claims that they encounter through social media, news stories, or professional communication. Their ability to identify and use verifiable facts impacts their personal choices and their active participation in public discussion. Professionals in scientific and technical careers need to approach their work with an understanding of ethical considerations, which include how the professional choices that they make in the face of ongoing and novel challenges impact citizens’ everyday lives. Given the broad social impacts of scientific and engineering research, ensuring the ethical and responsible conduct of research is vital to the welfare of the American public and promotes the progress of science. Universities must meet this need, both as sites of research and, most critically, as educators of future STEM researchers and workers. In this project, researchers examine how well institutional messaging that describes New Jersey Institute of Technology’s commitment to ethics aligns with students’ encounters with ethics in and out of the classroom. Ethics education aligns with the critical evaluation needs of citizens in two ways: first, by ensuring that the scientific and technological researchers of the future come to their work with robust training in ethics and next, by ensuring that higher education gives students practice in ethical reasoning. Skill in ethical reasoning facilitates students’ personal, vocational, and civic growth. Lessons learned from this study at this university will be used to improve alignment of ethics education at other US universities.Researchers from Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of South Florida who are members of a research consortium, the National Ethics Project (NEP), join forces with investigators from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to build an evidence-based account of an institution’s commitment to ethics education. Employing mixed-methodologies, we will test tools and techniques that combine novel and traditional methods from the digital humanities, psychology, and design thinking. These tools were designed by the NEP to benefit a broad range of institutions of higher education in auditing and transforming approaches to Ethical and Responsible Research. For this project, we will focus on alignment: identifying consistency with institution, faculty, and student statements and perceptions that include instructor goals, activities, and assessment techniques, student perception, and stated institutional commitment to ethics. In addition to helping NJIT examine its own approach to ethical and responsible research and seeding a future Institutional Transformation proposal to address identified needs, this project is the first campus-wide opportunity for the NEP to fully test its Campus Alignment Review of Ethics, which to date has been applied only piecemeal on separate campuses. Results from this research will be disseminated via the NEP website, the National Academy of Engineering’s Online Ethics Center, scholarly presentations at national conferences and publications in scholarly journals. Data developed through this project will be available to other researchers and to the public through the Open Science Framework.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.

今天的美国公民需要成为他们通过社交媒体、新闻报道或专业交流遇到的科学和技术主张的合格评估者。他们识别和使用可核实事实的能力影响到他们的个人选择和积极参与公共讨论。从事科学和技术职业的专业人员在工作时需要了解道德方面的考虑，其中包括他们在面临持续和新的挑战时所作的专业选择如何影响公民的日常生活。 鉴于科学和工程研究的广泛社会影响，确保研究的道德和负责任的行为对美国公众的福利至关重要，并促进科学的进步。大学必须满足这一需求，既作为研究场所，最重要的是，作为未来STEM研究人员和工作者的教育者。在这个项目中，研究人员研究如何以及机构的消息，描述了新泽西理工学院的道德承诺与学生的道德在课堂内外的遭遇一致。道德教育在两个方面与公民的关键评估需求保持一致：首先，确保未来的科学和技术研究人员在工作中接受严格的道德培训，其次，确保高等教育让学生练习道德推理。在道德推理的技能有利于学生的个人，职业和公民的成长。来自哈佛大学、斯坦福大学和南佛罗里达大学的研究人员是国家伦理项目研究联盟的成员，与来自新泽西理工学院（NJIT）的调查人员联手，建立一个证据-基于一个机构的道德教育的承诺帐户。采用混合的方法，我们将测试的工具和技术，结合联合收割机的新颖和传统的方法，从数字人文，心理学和设计思维。这些工具是由NEP设计的，旨在使高等教育机构在审计和转变道德和负责任的研究方法方面受益。对于这个项目，我们将专注于对齐：确定与机构，教师和学生的声明和看法，包括教师的目标，活动和评估技术，学生的看法，并表示机构承诺道德的一致性。除了帮助NJT审查自己的道德和负责任的研究方法并提出未来的机构转型提案以满足已确定的需求外，该项目还是NEP第一次在整个校园范围内全面测试其校园道德对齐审查的机会，迄今为止，该项目仅在不同的校园中零碎地应用。这项研究的结果将通过NEP网站、美国国家工程院在线伦理中心、国家会议上的学术报告和学术期刊上的出版物传播。通过该项目开发的数据将通过开放科学框架提供给其他研究人员和公众。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。