Assessing Ethical Behavior

Many colleges and universities have developed their own rubrics which they use to foster and assess Ethical Behavior outcomes.  Reviewing rubrics from several campuses can help focus local thinking about expectations for student learning in this area.  See the rubric collection at Opened Practices.

Assessing ethical behavior: Development of a Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale. (Robert L Cardy, Arizona State University and T. T. Selvarajan, Northeastern State University)
From the article’s abstract: “This study developed a six-dimension behavioral scale for assessing ethical judgment using the Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) procedure. One hundred and thirty four business undergraduate students participated in developing the scale. The use of this scale for conducting research on the process of making ethical performance judgments is discussed.”