Teachers’ Perceptions of ProEthica Program Learning Outcomes - Research Memorandum Series - RM-20-09 - 2020

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Ethics education enables educators to meet professional responsibilities by making decisions that safeguard students’ welfare. The ProEthica program is a professional development initiative for teachers and administrators, targeting intermediate learning outcomes tied to balancing competing obligations across relationships with students, colleagues, administrators, and the community, and applying best practices grounded in the Model Code of Educator Ethics. The study collected initial evidence through three teacher surveys administered before, after, and at year end, with methodology and response summaries reported.

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Research Memorandum ETS RM–20-09 Teachers’ Perceptions of ProEthica ® Program Learning Outcomes Heather M. Buzick Elizabeth A. Stone G. Tanner Jackson December 2020 ETS Research Memorandum Series EIGNOR EXECUTIVE EDITOR John Mazzeo Distinguished Presidential Appointee ASSOCIATE EDITORS Beata Beigman Klebanov Senior Research Scientist Heather Buzick Senior Research Scientist Tim Davey Research Director John Davis Research Scientist Marna Golub-Smith Principal Psychometrician Priya Kannan Research Scientist Sooyeon Kim Principal Psychometrician Anastassia Loukina Managing Senior Research Scientist Gautam Puhan Psychometric Director Jonathan Schmidgall Research Scientist Jesse Sparks Research Scientist Michael Walker Distinguished Presidential Appointee Klaus Zechner Senior Research Scientist Rebecca Zwick Distinguished Presidential Appointee PRODUCTION EDITORS Kim Fryer Manager, Editing Services Ayleen Gontz Senior Editor Since its 1947 founding, ETS has conducted and disseminated scientific research to support its products and services, and to advance the measurement and education fields. In keeping with these goals, ETS is committed to making its research freely available to the professional community and to the general public. Published accounts of ETS research, including papers in the ETS Research Memorandum series, undergo a formal peer-review process by ETS staff to ensure that they meet established scientific and professional standards. All such ETS-conducted peer reviews are in addition to any reviews that outside organizations may provide as part of their own publication processes. Peer review notwithstanding, the positions expressed in the ETS Research Memorandum series and other published accounts of ETS research are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Officers and Trustees of Educational Testing Service. The Daniel Eignor Editorship is named in honor of Dr. Daniel R. Eignor, who from 2001 until 2011 served the Research and Development division as Editor for the ETS Research Report series. The Eignor Editorship has been created to recognize the pivotal leadership role that Dr. Eignor played in the research publication process at ETS. Teachers’ Perceptions of ProEthica® Program Learning Outcomes Heather M. Buzick, Elizabeth A. Stone, and G. Tanner Jackson Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, United States December 2020 Corresponding author: H. Buzick, E-mail: [hbuzick@ets.org](hbuzick@ets.org) Suggested citation: Buzick, H. M., Stone, E. A., & Jackson, G. T. (2020) . Teachers’ perceptions of ProEthica ® program learning outcomes (Research Memorandum No. RM-20-09) . Educational Testing Service. Find other ETS-published reports by searching the ETS ReSEARCHER database at [https://search.ets.org/researcher/](https://search.ets.org/researcher/) To obtain a copy of an ETS research report, please visit [https://ets.org/research/contact/](https://ets.org/research/contact/) Action Editor: Jesse Sparks Reviewers: Rick Tannenbaum and Caroline Wylie Copyright © 2020 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. ETS, the ETS logo, and PROETHICA are registered trademarks of Educational Testing Service (ETS) . All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Abstract Ethics education can provide an opportunity to educators to learn how to fulfill their professional responsibilities with regard to ethics, including making decisions that protect students’ welfare. The ProEthica ® program is a professional development program for teachers and administrators. The basic intended intermediate outcomes of the ProEthica program for teachers are that teachers will learn how to balance competing obligations and expectations in their relationships with students, colleagues, administrators, and the community and that they will gain knowledge about best practices and principles embodie

FAQs

What learning outcomes does the ProEthica program target for teachers?

The program targets teachers learning to balance competing obligations in relationships with students, colleagues, administrators, and the community, and gaining knowledge of best practices and principles in the Model Code of Educator Ethics.

How was evidence collected for the intended intermediate outcomes?

Three surveys were developed and administered to teachers in a pilot school district before they began the program, after they completed it, and at the end of the program year.

What does the report document about the study methodology and survey responses?

The report documents the study methodology and provides summaries of survey responses across the three survey administrations.

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