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

近十年来，美国国家科学基金会一直要求接受NSF资助的博士后，研究生和本科生进行道德和负责任的研究行为的培训，但关于最有效的道德教育方法还有很多东西要学。讲习班参加者将为推动道德操守培训举措的评估制定一套研究问题，然后开会回答这些问题，并推动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，并培养研究诚信的文化。本次研讨会将提高对影响研究伦理决策的因素的认识，以及如何系统地评估研究伦理培训计划的有效性。赠款活动将围绕开发几个研究问题的答案组织。这些问题包括：（1）道德教育干预措施应旨在实现哪些目标？(2)哪些技能对道德决策至关重要？3)道德教育干预措施如何在个人、小团体和机构层面促进诚信文化？(4)我们如何才能最好地评估不同类型的道德教育干预措施的效力和效率？研讨会的参与者将合作回答这些问题，并提高我们建立和公平评估下一代干预措施的能力，以促进研究伦理。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，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.