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- Title
Ethics Incognito: Detecting Ethically Relevant Courses Across Curricula in Higher Education.
- Authors
Ongis, Martino; Kidd, David; Miner, Jess
- Abstract
As colleges and universities seek to invigorate ethics education, they need methods to identify where and describe how ethics is already present across their curricula. Meeting this need is complicated by the fact that much ethics education occurs in courses not explicitly focused on ethics or morality. In this paper, we review recent methodological advances before presenting a new Ethics Course Identification Tool (ECIT) that combines application of an expert-derived weighted dictionary and natural language processing methods to identify ethics-related courses based on their titles and course catalog descriptions, even when the terms "ethic" or "moral" are not present. Two studies, the second a pre-registered replication, revealed considerable interrater reliability among experts in ethics education regarding the ethical relevance of courses. Critically, both studies revealed strong correlations between expert judgments and ECIT scores. This empirical evidence points to a shared understanding of ethics education among experts, and it supports the valid use of the ECIT to rapidly and reliably identify ethics-related courses. Based on these findings, we propose that the ECIT can be used both to advance research on trends in ethics education and to help target interventions to improve ethics education at colleges and universities.
- Subjects
COLLEGE curriculum; NATURAL language processing; ETHICS education; MORAL education; RESEARCH ethics; UNIVERSITY rankings
- Publication
Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024, Vol 22, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
1570-1727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10805-023-09482-8