RAISE Program: Research and Integrity in Science & Engineering

RAISE 计划：科学研究和诚信

• 批准号: 0734865
• 负责人: Thomas Powers
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0734865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAISE; Program; Research; Integrity; Science

Ethical issues associated with the integrity of academic science and engineering are increasingly in the public spotlight. These issues include the falsification of experimental results, fabrication of data, conflicts of interest in industry-funded research, plagiarism, vulnerability of whistleblowers, and improper attribution of authorship for collaborators. Since science and engineering are interdisciplinary endeavors, the public perception of impropriety quickly spreads to all of its fields. Since they are global endeavors, norms and expectations need to be broadly applicable, but cultural differences among practitioners, academic hierarchies, pressures to publish, and inattention to the social climate of research present significant challenges to agreement on ethical rules. Difficulties in establishing and enforcing ethical norms and expectations threaten the secure accumulation of knowledge, the public perception of the integrity of academic science and engineering, financial support for scientific research, and acceptance of scientific results. The RAISE project seeks to engage graduate students through a pilot project that will result in a code of ethics and integrity for research at the university. The RAISE project trains advanced graduate students as ?ethics educators? across the science and engineering fields to provide this instruction. This training emphasizes the pedagogy of problem-based learning and using small groups will lead to a process of consensus building and codes of ethics and integrity. The codes developed by each small group will then be evaluated and adjusted through a process known in the philosophical literature on ethics as ?reflective equilibrium.? Special attention will be given to whether the code is sensitive to culture, gender, and disciplinary differences. Ultimately, the goal is to provide the basis for a university-wide policy on research integrity.

与学术科学和工程的完整性相关的道德问题越来越受到公众关注。这些问题包括伪造实验结果，数据制造，行业资助研究中的利益冲突，窃，举报者的脆弱性以及对合作者的不当归因。 由于科学和工程是跨学科的努力，因此公众对不当行为的看法迅速传播到其所有领域。 由于它们是全球努力，因此规范和期望需要广泛适用，但是从业者，学术等级，出版的压力以及对研究的社会氛围中的文化差异给人以道德规则的协议带来了重大挑战。 建立和执行道德准则和期望的困难威胁着知识的安全积累，公众对学术科学和工程的完整性，对科学研究的财务支持以及接受科学成果的认识。加薪项目旨在通过一个试点项目吸引研究生，该项目将为大学提供道德规范和诚信守则。 RAIS项目将高级研究生培训为“道德教育者”？在整个科学和工程领域，以提供此指令。 这项培训强调了基于问题的学习和使用小组的教学法将导致建立共识以及道德和正直守则的过程。 然后，每个小组开发的代码将通过有关伦理学的哲学文献中已知的“反射平衡”中所知的过程进行评估和调整。将特别注意该代码是否对文化，性别和学科差异敏感。 最终，目标是为整个大学综合政策提供基础。