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INTEGRITY: empowering students through evidence-based, scaffolded learning of Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR)

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Deliverables

Manuals and online material (YouTube videos) RCR training, for undergraduate and early career researcher teachers

Manuals and online material YouTube videos RCR training for undergraduate and early career researcher teachersManuals and online material eg YouTube instructions or animations will be developed for the innovative tools as developed in WP 4 A training module will be developed that includes the use of the manual and how it relates to the teaching philosophy as developed in the international standard in WP4 as much of the materials will be usable in a scaffolded manner

Quality checks

Quality checks to assess effectiveness of RCR training. The findings in tasks 2.1 and 2.2 will be used as input to develop a quality checklist that will serve as a benchmark to assess the effectiveness of teaching practices in RCR training. Moreover, the overall didactical concept of RCR training will be explicated in this task, aligned to the checklist and a view on how to assess tool will be developed to determine the effectiveness of teaching programs and tools (with a prototype as a result).

Standard

Standard with a competence profile on teaching research integrityDrawing on the knowledge gained in in WP 2 and WP 3 the first task will be to define a standard identifying the relevant aspects that shape the teaching philosophy of RCR This standard will include a competence profile that distinguishes learning aims in different phases of study high school undergraduate phase and early career researchers and will offer a taxonomy of topics that are relevant and meaningful for each phase The framework will cover a wide range of research areas including oftenneglected fields will clarify where innovative tools are most urgently needed and will particularly identify those fields where there is a significant deficit of teaching on research integrity The framework will also distinguish the relevant phases of the educational journey In addition it will give insight into the views and expectations that students have with regards to education in research integrity and will highlight the knowledge deficiencies they experienceDrawing on the extensive research in WP 2 and 3 the competence profile will establish how high standards of attention to research integrity can be stimulated amongst students and will disaggregate the data so as to show the range of relevant conditions varying from minimal conditions of compliance to the maximum desired aims namely the creation of conditions that promote and embed a culture of research integrity aligned to research excellence The next step is to differentiate between three target groups high school students undergraduate students and early career researchers and combine theory and practice outlined in previous WPs to understand recent innovations in formal and nonformal learning for these different groups particularly with respect to ethics integrity and responsibility This will enable us to design tailormade approaches to building competence in research integrity in the context of identifying what is feasible and sustainable in the different institutional contexts of learning A matrix or taxonomy will be developed that distinguishes between minimum required aims according to the standard and a maximum in offerings in teaching

Project Events M12

Information (title, date, location, content) on significant events (conferences, seminars, workshops)

Report of experiments on applicable nudges

Report on the results of experiments and a series of applicable integrity nudges for which practical information and material are freely available to the community on the project website

Results of mapping current practice

Mapping results of current teaching practices will be presented via the project website. Via internet searches, network searches and an online questionnaire inquiring for current practices amongst professional teachers and curriculum coordinators we will build an overview in 10 European countries regarding research ethics teaching. This overview will include the target groups of education in research integrity, whether this is mandatory or optional, what the content and focus of educational programs is, and what working methods are being used. It will also focus on possible instructions for teachers on how to teach research integrity. One of the results will be that we will, relating the findings to the European Code of Conduct, reveal current blind spots in teaching.

Manuscript with literature review

This review will map literature on teaching research integrity for three different groups The literature will be reviewed in the period of 19902018 and will be categorized according to relevant criteria including target groups disciplines aim and focus of the teaching tools working method evaluations and assessment of effects The review will be presented as a manuscript for an international peer reviewed journal

2 Manuscripts

Two manuscripts about integritynudges efficacy for international peer reviewed journals

Manuscripts

Manuscripts on the development and use of the tools

Finalized Dissemination and communication plan

Finalized Dissemination and communication plan: this plan will outline the strategy and activities to be undertaken and the means to be used to ensure that the project’s activities are widely disseminated and communicated a) within the Consortium, b) to the interested stakeholders and c) to the wider public.

Report on questionnaires and interviews

Final report on questionnaire and qualitative interviews

Newsletter issued (4)

Newsletters issued. A newsletter with the latest news will be sent out to stakeholder groups and published on the website (M 9, M 18, M 27, M 36)

Project Events M36

Information title date location content on significant events conferences seminars workshops

Two manuscripts on findings

Two manuscripts submitted to peer reviewed international journals

Project Events M3

Information (title, date, location, content) on significant events (conferences, seminars, workshops)

Project Events M24

Information title date location content on significant events conferences seminars workshops

Report with guidelines

Report for managers and heads of institutions in universities providing documentation and advices for stimulating integrity with help of nudging techniques mainly based on the results of subparts 6264

Manuscript on train the teacher WP activities

Manuscript on train the teacher WP activitiesA manuscript will be prepared on the mentoring and coaching role of senior researchers

Tools undergraduate students

Innovative and effective tools for undergraduate studentsThe online tool will be developed based on the design of and existing successful ethics teaching tool developed by Consortium Partners in collaboration with the SME Animal Ethics Dilemmas httpaedilemmanetThe facetoface modules will also be developed based on existing successful teaching mapped in WP3

Diner-pensants for 450 participants (method will be made available)

onlineDinerpensants for 450 participants method used for dinerpensants will be made available Especially in informal educational settings the possibilities to help novice researchers learn how to reflect decide and behave in research practice is highly relevant The tools developed in WP 4 and the online module developed in 53 will both be used to organize due to COVID19 an online event that matches the idea of dinerpensants These dinners use a reflective and interactive methodology in an informal setting and have proven to be a successful method for reflection aiming at professionals in this subtask it is an invitation to take up ones role as mentor and role model We aim to involve 50 senior research staff member at each partner university in these events The program for the events will be shared so that other universities outside the Consortium could organize similar ones We will develop materials for the SPOC in 53 together with this alternative dinerpensant and the MOOC that will be developed in 75 To this purpose we will record scenes which will be filmed in May 2021

Workshop developed and organized for teachers at each Consortium partner

Workshop developed and organized for teachers at each Consortium partnerWorkshops will be organized to train teaching staff and to get feedback what will work in their practices At each Consortium partner university we will organize an expert workshop with teaching staff involved in formal nonformal and informal teaching of research integrity Central to the workshop will be both a presentation of developed tools and methods to teach RCR as well as a training and discussion how to do this in practice Via interactive sessions we will also gain input how the methods and tools can work in practice and could be embedded in curricula The input received from teachers will be used to modify the materials developed in 51 We aim to include 90180 teachers in these trainings

Tools high school students

Innovative and effective tools for high school students The winning project of the design week in task 2 will be developed by educational designers as part of a suite of tools for testing across different high schools

Checklist and view on assessment

Checklist and view on assessment A view on how to assess tool will be developed to determine the effectiveness of teaching programs and tools (with a prototype as a result).

European Student Convention

European Student Convention on Research IntegrityAt the end of the testing phase we will organize an online European Students Convention on RCR training that brings together all those who designed the successful tools both to showcase the best tools and to debate the issues raised for society by research misconduct and the importance of research integrity from young peoples perspective

Project website

Project website will be established and maintained, presenting all relevant news about the project’s activities

MOOC

MOOC on research integrityBased on the SPOCs developed in WP4 and the Emodule developed for teachers a MOOC will be designed and developed that is publicly available This MOOC will be developed by Elevate Health the partner who is also responsible for developing the SPOCs

Publications

New Swiss guidelines on scientific integrity: a step in the right direction, but still not enough

Author(s): Roberto Andorno
Published in: Swiss Med Weekly, Issue 14247860, 2021, ISSN 1424-7860
Publisher: EMH Swiss Medical Publishers Ltd
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2021.w30074

Is there a relationship between student attitudes and behavior regarding integrity issues?

Author(s): Hanneke Mol; Mariëtte van den Hoven
Published in: Mol , H & van den Hoven , M 2022 , ' Is there a relationship between student attitudes and behavior regarding integrity issues? ' , International Journal for Educational Integrity , vol. 18 , no. 1 , 6 , pp. 1-13 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-022-00100-5, Issue 21931801, 2022, ISSN 2193-1801
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
DOI: 10.1007/s40979-022-00100-5

Good friend or good student? An interview study of perceived conflicts between personal and academic integrity among students in three European countries

Author(s): Mads Paludan Goddiksenhttps, Una Quinn, Nóra Kovác, Thomas Bøker Lund, Peter Sandøe, Orsolya Varga, and Mikkel Willum Johansen
Published in: Accountability in Research, Issue Volume 28, 2020, Page(s) 247-264, ISSN 0898-9621
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2020.1826319

Effective Strategies for Research Integrity Training—a Meta-analysis

Author(s): Johannes Katsarov; Roberto Andorno; A. Krom; Mariëtte van den Hoven
Published in: Educational Psychology Review, Issue 21931801, 2022, ISSN 2193-1801
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
DOI: 10.5167/uzh-206172

A Quality Checklist for Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Education: A proposal to complement the Predictive Modeling Tool

Author(s): Andre Krom, Mariëtte vd Hoven
Published in: Accountability in Research, Issue 21931801, 2021, ISSN 2193-1801
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2021.1887736

Lack of ethics or lack of knowledge? European upper secondary students’ doubts and misconceptions about integrity issues

Author(s): Mikkel Willum Johansen, Mads Paludan Goddiksen, Mateja Centa, Christine Clavien, Eugenijus Gefenas, Roman Globokar, Linda Hogan, Marcus Tang Merit, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, I. Anna S. Olsson, Margarita Poškutė, Una Quinn, Júlio Borlido Santos, Rita Santos, Céline Schöpfer, Vojko Strahovnik, P. J. Wall, Peter Sandøe & Thomas Bøker Lund
Published in: International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2022, ISSN 1833-2595
Publisher: BMC
DOI: 10.1007/s40979-022-00113-0

Perish or Publish Dilemma: Challenges to Responsible Authorship

Author(s): by Vygintas Aliukonis,Margarita Poškutė and Eugenijus Gefenas
Published in: Medicina, Issue 16489144, 2020, ISSN 1648-9144
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/medicina56030123

Comment to David Shaw, The Quest for Clarity in Research Integrity: A Conceptual Schema, Sci Eng Ethics (2019) 25: 1085–1093

Author(s): Mariëtte van den Hoven; A. Krom
Published in: Science and Engineering Ethics, Issue 19, 2020, Page(s) 1883-4, ISSN 2193-1801
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-020-00179-4

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