Effectiveness of RCR Instruction

描述(由申请人提供)：尽管在负责任的研究行为(RCR)方面有11年的强制指导历史，但人们对这种培训的有效性知之甚少。对RCR教学的评估在很大程度上局限于个别课程。通常，教师设定课程目标和目的，并使用教学工具来评估技能掌握情况。目前还没有系统的努力来确定RCR教学是否对与研究伦理相关的意识、注意力和行为判断产生了可衡量的影响。为了阐明RCR教学的有效性，我们将对NIH F32奖学金支持的生物医学、行为和临床研究博士后学员进行全国性的纵向研究。我们将使用三波调查来衡量RCR教学前后在RCR内容、作者和出版实践这一核心领域的知晓度、注意力和行为判断。我们的三波面板设计将允许在RCR指令之前、RCR指令后不久以及RCR指令后较长时间后测量关键依赖变量(意识、注意力和行为决定)。我们将在同行评议的文献和互联网上传播我们的调查结果和解释。我们相信，我们广泛的、系统的方法的结果将为理解RCR教学有效性和提出改进策略提供基础。尽管我们的研究只关注作者和出版实践，但我们预计我们的方法将为其他核心主题领域的平行研究奠定基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Despite an eleven-year history of mandated instruction in responsible conduct of research (RCR), little is known about the effectiveness of such training. The evaluation of RCR instruction has largely been limited to individual courses. Typically, instructors set course goals and objectives and use teaching tools to evaluate mastery of skills. There has been no systematic effort to determine if RCR instruction has measurable effects on awareness, attention, and behavioral judgments related to research ethics. To shed light on RCR instruction effectiveness, we shall conduct a national longitudinal study of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research postdoctoral trainees supported by NIH F32 Fellowships. We shall use a 3-wave survey to measure awareness, attention to, and behavioral judgment pre- and post-RCR instruction in one core area of RCR content, authorship and publication practices. Our a 3-wave panel design will allow the measurement of the key dependent variables (awareness, attention, and behavioral decisions) prior to RCR instruction, shortly after RCR instruction, and then after a longer time has elapsed post-RCR instruction. We shall disseminate our findings and interpretations in the peer-reviewed literature and on the Internet. We believe that the results of our broad-based, systematic approach will provide a foundation for understanding RCR teaching effectiveness and for suggesting strategies to improve it. Although our study focuses solely on authorship and publication practices, we expect our approach will set the stage for parallel studies in other core topic areas.