Collaborative Research: Standard: Comparison of Communications across Campus Cultures (4C Project): Toward Evidence-based Customization of Learning Experiences for CCE STEM

合作研究：标准：跨校园文化的沟通比较（4C 项目）：面向 CCE STEM 学习体验的循证定制

• 批准号: 1624225
• 负责人: Kathleen Eggleson
• 金额: $ 20.89万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624225&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Standard; Comparison; Communications

Ethical behavior of STEM professionals is essential for the progress of science, advancement of the national health, and prosperity and welfare. Therefore STEM trainees must receive the appropriate education to mature into responsible professionals that display an awareness and understanding of ethical challenges within STEM. Does "one size fits all" STEM ethics training result in a well-trained STEM workforce?The goal of this collaborative project is to define, through data, STEM ethics learning communities and then develop a strategy for matching communities with resources effective for them. Through this study, hundreds of STEM trainees from four distinct higher learning institutions will each provide individual demographic and academic information, survey data, and writing samples. The data sets generated will be analyzed to determine which common qualities define ethical STEM learning communities. Evidence-based identification of learning communities will then provide the basis for strategically matching them with a subset of the many resources and experiences already developed for ethical STEM education. This study will be conducted simultaneously at campuses with different constituencies and cultures: (1) Saint Mary's College, an all-women's college; (2) the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic research university; (3) Xavier University, a Historically Black College or University (HBCU); and (4) the University of Virginia, a public research university. The methods employed will include administration and analysis of five validated scales (for learning style, personality, moral concern, moral action, and environmental orientation) and automated text analysis of student writings in three different formats (electronic journal entry, online discussion forum, and Twitter). To develop and test principles of differentiated instruction emerging from this research, investigators from each institution will design and offer pilot learning experiences combining a single established resource or approach for ethics education with one defined learning community. The resulting case reports and underlying principles are expected to be articulated in the Strategic Engagement of Learning Communities for Ethical STEM Handbook and distributed across STEM research networks, the science and engineering ethics community, informal science and education networks, and K-12 science education networks.

STEM专业人士的道德行为对于科学的进步，国家健康的发展以及繁荣与福利至关重要。因此，STEM学员必须接受适当的教育，以使负责任的专业人员成熟，这些专业人员表现出对STEM内道德挑战的认识和理解。 “一件尺寸适合所有”的STEM伦理培训会导致训练有素的STEM劳动力？该协作项目的目标是通过数据，STEM伦理学习社区定义，然后制定一种使社区与对他们有效的资源相匹配的策略。通过这项研究，来自四个不同高等教育机构的数百名STEM受训者将分别提供个人人口统计信息和学术信息，调查数据和写作样本。将分析生成的数据集，以确定哪些常见品质定义了道德STEM学习社区。然后，基于证据的学习社区的识别将为他们与已经为道德STEM教育开发的许多资源和经验的一部分提供策略性的基础。这项研究将在具有不同选区和文化的校园同时进行：（1）圣玛丽学院，一所全妇学院； （2）天主教研究型大学的巴黎圣母院； （3）Xavier大学，历史悠久的黑人学院或大学（HBCU）； （4）弗吉尼亚大学，公共研究大学。所采用的方法将包括对五个经过验证的量表的管理和分析（用于学习风格，个性，道德关注，道德行动和环境取向）以及以三种不同格式的学生著作的自动文本分析（电子期刊，在线讨论论坛，在线讨论论坛和叽叽喳喳）。为了制定和测试这项研究中差异化的指导的原则，每个机构的研究人员将设计并提供试点学习经验，将伦理教育的单一既定资源或方法与一个定义的学习社区结合在一起。预计最终的案例报告和基本原则将在学习社区的伦理STEM手册的战略参与中表达出来，并在STEM研究网络，科学和工程伦理社区，非正式科学和教育网络以及K-12科学教育网络中分发。