Subject: Ethics Education
Venue: Workshop on Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research
Date of speech: August 25, 2008
Summary Excerpt
Outreach & Assessment
Despite significant and unprecedented scientific, engineering and technological advances as well as educational innovations in the past century, efforts directed toward training, outreach and assessment in a world which demands an increasingly complex set of ethical standards of conduct lag significantly behind.
In addressing issues of outreach in Ethics Training, one approach may be to consider the many parallels with ‘knowledge management’, i.e., developing an important and effective strategy of getting the right information to the appropriate audiences at the right time while assisting with dissemination and implementation – in ways that will ultimately improve performance as well as compliance with accepted standards. A wide variety of methods and approaches are currently in use. However, broad-based effectiveness remains undetermined as no systematic review has been undertaken or metrics developed to statistically determine need, reliability and validity to date. Existing assessment strategies seem to involve large-scale data mining strategies and longitudinal studies rather than scholarly approaches to establish efficacy and possible avenues for training intervention.