Development and Impact Assessment of an Interactive Online System for Computing Ethics Education

计算机伦理教育交互式在线系统的开发和影响评估

• 批准号: 2337133
• 负责人: Francisco Castro
• 金额: $ 9.88万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2337133&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Impact; Assessment; Interactive; Online

This project aims to serve the national interest by advancing our understanding of how to provide effective ethics education for computing students. Computing systems and algorithms are used in all aspects of the modern world, including healthcare, governance, social media, defense, and business. Recent years have witnessed, a steady succession of ethical failures in the development and application of computer technology. Computing ethics courses have emerged, but as important as these courses are, ethics-education researchers have been increasingly aware of the drawbacks of relying on a single course to instill ethical behavior in students. This project will study the effectiveness of embedding ethics instruction throughout the computing curriculum. The Platform for Ethics and Responsible Computing Education (PEaRCE) will be developed and used to provide realistic interactive scenarios that highlight how to apply ethics in the creation and development of computing systems. The development methodology for this project will involve co-designing a wide variety of work-situation scenarios for the PEaRCE platform, in collaboration with computing educators, to fit the topics of their courses. A variety of features in the platform as well as curricular activities will be developed to accompany the PEaRCE simulations, to support educators who may have little or no background in ethics education. The research methodology, and main goal of this project, will be to analyze the impact of PEaRCE on students’ ethical awareness as they progress in their use of the platform. Research studies will involve about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate computing students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and their instructors, and later in computing courses taught at New York University. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

该项目旨在通过增进我们对如何为计算机学生提供有效的道德教育的理解来服务于国家利益。计算系统和算法应用于现代世界的各个方面，包括医疗保健、治理、社交媒体、国防和商业。近年来，计算机技术的开发和应用中不断出现道德败坏的情况。计算机伦理课程已经出现，但与这些课程一样重要的是，伦理教育研究人员越来越意识到依靠单一课程向学生灌输伦理行为的弊端。该项目将研究在整个计算机课程中嵌入道德指导的有效性。将开发并使用道德和负责任计算教育平台（PEaRCE）来提供现实的交互场景，强调如何在计算系统的创建和开发中应用道德。该项目的开发方法将涉及与计算机教育工作者合作，为 PEaRCE 平台共同设计各种工作场景，以适应他们的课程主题。该平台的各种功能以及课程活动将与 PEaRCE 模拟一起开发，以支持在道德教育方面很少或没有背景的教育工作者。该项目的研究方法和主要目标将是分析 PEaRCE 在学生使用该平台的过程中对道德意识的影响。 研究将涉及马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的大约 1,000 名本科生和研究生计算机专业学生及其导师，随后将参与纽约大学教授的计算机课程。 NSF IUSE：EDU 计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生 STEM 教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。