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Title | ||
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Mental Models: An Alternative Evaluation of a Sensemaking Approach to Ethics Instruction. |
Abstract | ||
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In spite of the wide variety of approaches to ethics training it is still debatable which approach has the highest potential
to enhance professionals’ integrity. The current effort assesses a novel curriculum that focuses on metacognitive reasoning
strategies researchers use when making sense of day-to-day professional practices that have ethical implications. The evaluated
trainings effectiveness was assessed by examining five key sensemaking processes, such as framing, emotion regulation, forecasting,
self-reflection, and information integration that experts and novices apply in ethical decision-making. Mental models of trained
and untrained graduate students, as well as faculty, working in the field of physical sciences were compared using a think-aloud
protocol 6 months following the ethics training. Evaluation and comparison of the mental models of participants provided further
validation evidence for sensemaking training. Specifically, it was found that trained students applied metacognitive reasoning
strategies learned during training in their ethical decision-making that resulted in complex mental models focused on the
objective assessment of the situation. Mental models of faculty and untrained students were externally-driven with a heavy
focus on autobiographical processes. The study shows that sensemaking training has a potential to induce shifts in researchers’
mental models by making them more cognitively complex via the use of metacognitive reasoning strategies. Furthermore, field
experts may benefit from sensemaking training to improve their ethical decision-making framework in highly complex, novel,
and ambiguous situations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2008 | 10.1007/s11948-008-9076-3 | Science and Engineering Ethics |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Integrity,Ethics,Training,Evaluation,Sensemaking,Mental models,Think-aloud | Journal | 14 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
3 | 1353-3452 | 6 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
1.48 | 8 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meagan E. Brock | 1 | 6 | 1.82 |
| Andrew Vert | 2 | 6 | 1.48 |
| Vykinta Kligyte | 3 | 23 | 6.68 |
| Ethan P. Waples | 4 | 17 | 3.53 |
| Sydney T. Sevier | 5 | 23 | 6.68 |
| Michael D Mumford | 6 | 65 | 15.29 |