NEP researchers work alongside institutions and fellow scholars to develop tools, methods and innovative approaches for evaluating and refining ethics education across the country.
Ethically speaking, an Institution of Higher Education should do what it claims to be doing. Institutional Messaging and Alignment projects examine the IHE for connections, and gaps, between claims made on the website and evidence of practice found in it's public messaging.
Use this guide as an overview for understanding institutional messaging, how to best investigate it, and what resources we've developed to help.
A pair of parallel surveys, the Instructor and Student Alignment Surveys provide insight into the methods and goals underlying ethics instruction by clarifying the learning pathways of students and highlighting where instructor and student perceptions diverge. These surveys can provide a landscape view of ethics education and help guide adjustments to pedagogy for individual instructors.
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An automated weighted search tool that scores courses for ethical content based on the presence of 305 ethics-related terms in the course title and description included in a course catalog. By utilizing the ECIT, institutions interested in enhancing ethics education can facilitate integration of ethics across the curriculum.
The NEP Web Scraper is a toolset designed to capture, organize, and analyze content from public-facing institutional websites. The Scraper reveals where ethics appears in institutional messaging and provides insight to administrators and researchers interested in understanding how an institution reflects ethics as a value in its communications with various stakeholder groups.
An interactive map including every institution of higher education in the United States, listing their curricular ethics requirements and any ethics centers they have. The map utilizes a years of data collection where NEP researchers manually coded general education requirements across nearly 2,000 insitutions.