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Integrating Ethical Reasoning into STEM Curricula: Using the Ethical Reasoning Instrument for Course Development

Friday, November 4, 2022

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

Location: Arlington & Fairfax

Co-Presenter(s)

CB

Cynthia M. Bauerle (they/them/theirs)

Professor of Biology
James Madison University
Rockingham, Virginia, United States
LB

Laura J. Bottomley

Director, Engineering Education and Women in Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
CH

Carrie L. Hall (she/her/hers)

Program Director
National Science Foundation
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
LT

Lisette E. Torres-Gerald (she/her/hers)

Senior Research Associate and Project Coordinator
TERC
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Program Abstract: We will present the Ethical Reasoning Instrument (ERI), a course development tool designed to support STEM faculty as they integrate ethical reasoning concepts and practices into STEM courses. Developed during the Future Substance of STEM Education project, the ERI posits an interdisciplinary framework consisting of foundational, meta, and humanistic knowledge domains. ERI incorporates these domains through the lens of an ethical reasoning framework developed at James Madison University. For each of eight ethical reasoning dimensions, the instrument prompts for three areas of course development: learning activities, learning assessments, and pedagogies.

We will briefly describe the instrument and pilot studies, and will facilitate a discussion in which participants consider how the ERI might be utilized for course development in their own institutional contexts. Participants will consider elements of the tool that they can use and will discuss opportunities and challenges with using the ERI to incorporate ethical reasoning into their own STEM courses.