Current NewsAEA's New Ethical Guidelines for Authors - Economics and Ethics Amidst the flurry of travel and other things, neither Mark nor I got around to reporting on the American Economic Association's new principles for authors, adopted January 5, 2012. Current principles of disclosure and data submission are found here. The new extensions to these principles are... U.K. looks for way through misconduct maze - Science Insider LONDON - Scientific misconduct is alive and well in the United Kingdom, according to around 30 ethicists, researchers, journal editors, advocates, and funders attending a meeting on that topic sponsored by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)... Sociology of science: Keep standards high - Nature Science is unique among areas of organized activity and production in that it has an informal quality-assurance system: peer review, publication and replication. The system has worked well since its inception in the seventeenth century, when the scientific journal came into being. But it is now being challenged as technology changes social practices of science. How might it evolve? Interact with Ethics COREUse our Active Learning Exercises Explore role-plays, 2-minute challenges, & other interactive resources Upload a Document to Ethics COREContribute a document or instructional material to Ethics CORE Create a ClassCreate a class or participate in one online Featured Blog"The Challenge of Putting a Grade on Ethical Learning"This is a nice, short article on the state of the art of assessing the effects of attempts to teach ethics. The short story is that it’s really hard to show that a course or an ethics-across-the-curriculum program improves people’s ethical behavior. The same holds true, of course, for teaching research ethics...more |
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