Team-based learning instruction for responsible conduct of research positively impacts ethical decision-making.
Common practices for responsible conduct of research (RCR) instruction have recently been shown to have no positive impact on and possibly to undermine ethical decision-making (EDM). We show that a team-based learning (TBL) RCR curriculum results in some gains in decision ethicality, the use of more helpful metacognitive reasoning strategies in decision-making, and elimination of most negative effects of other forms of RCR instruction on social-behavioral responses. TBL supports the reasoning strategies and social mechanisms that underlie EDM and ethics instruction, and may provide a more effective method for RCR instruction than lectures and small group discussion.
a Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine , University of Florida College of Medicine , Gainesville , Florida , USA.
Wayne T
WT
McCormack
Cynthia W
CW
Garvan
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D032984:Ethics, Research / Q000193:education*; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group