Mentoring the Responsible Conduct of Research

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的20年里，一个共识已经形成，即负责任的研究行为（RCR）对于科学企业及其股东的持续健康至关重要-联邦政府，科学学科，个人研究人员，机构，研究生学员和公众（NAS，1995; PHS，2000）。RCR包括遵守科学的规则，法规，规范和实践。在大学内，科学的价值观通过他们的研究导师直接传递给研究生，并间接通过他们所就读的部门计划的规则，程序和一般RCR气候。美国心理学协会目前有超过63，000名需要科学培训的博士，每年约有1，000名新博士进入该领域。与其他科学一样，心理学研究对公共卫生和福利的直接贡献也在增加，提高了其公众知名度，特别是在科学不端行为的情况下。尽管事实上，研究心理学家的独特训练，以开发心理测量有效的工具来理解和评估RCR培训，一直没有检查的导师和部门的气氛对社会化的研究生在负责任的心理研究行为的作用。这个为期2年的项目的主要目标是开发和验证基于网络的自我报告工具，以了解研究生如何在涉及人类受试者的心理学研究的负责任行为中进行社会化。在小，但不断增长的理论和经验数据基础上RCR在一般和道德标准的心理研究，特别是这个为期2年的项目将开发和验证工具测量2个结构假设影响学生RCR收购：RCR心理学辅导和RCR心理学系气候。本研究亦将发展一套测量心理学系学生感知RCR准备程度的工具。在建立了可靠性和有效性之后，将使用这些工具来测试基于理论的预测，即RCR指导和RCR部门气候单独和共同影响心理学研究生在他们的科学生涯中独立应用核心RCR原则的能力的信心。该项目的广泛的长期目标是提供心理测量学验证的RCR指导措施，RCR机构气候，和学生的感知RCR能力，用于心理学系的自学，旨在提高科学诚信教育和其他学科可以开始，以适应自己的培训需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past 20 years a consensus has developed that the responsible conduct of research (RCR) is vital for the continued health of the scientific enterprise and its stakeholders-the federal government, scientific disciplines, individual researchers, institutions, graduate trainees, and the public (NAS, 1995; PHS, 2000). RCR encompasses adherence to the rules, regulations, norms and practices of science. Within universities the values of science are directly transmitted to graduate students through their research mentors and indirectly through the rules, procedures, and general RCR climate of the departmental program in which they are enrolled. There are over 63,000 current members of the American Psychological Association with Ph.D.s that required science training and approximately 1,000 new Ph.D.s enter the field each year. Like other sciences, the direct contributions of psychological research to public health and welfare have increased heightening its public visibility especially in cases of scientific misconduct. Despite the fact that research psychologists are uniquely trained to develop psychometrically valid instruments to understand and evaluate RCR training, there has been no examination of the role of mentorship and departmental climate on the socialization of graduates students in the responsible conduct of psychological research. The broad goal of this 2-year project is to develop and validate web-based self-report instruments to understand how graduate students are socialized in the responsible conduct of psychological research involving human subjects. Drawing upon the small but growing theoretical and empirical data base on RCR in general and ethical standards for psychological research in particular this 2-year project will develop and validate instruments measuring 2 constructs hypothesized to influenced student RCR acquisition: RCR Mentoring In Psychology and the RCR Psychology Department Climate. An instrument to measure Psychology Students' Perceived RCR Preparedness will also be developed. After reliability and validity has been established the instruments will be used to test the theory-based prediction that RCR mentoring and RCR department climate function individually and jointly to influence psychology graduate students' confidence in their ability to independently apply core RCR principles in their science careers. The broad long-term goal of this project is to provide psychometrically validated measures of RCR mentoring, RCR institutional climate, and students' perceived RCR competencies for use by psychology departments in self-studies designed to improve science integrity education and that other disciplines can begin to adapt to their own training needs.