Ethics
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Key Message: |
A message from the Ethics GLO Advisor:
“The Ethics GLO equips our graduates with the ability to make considered ethical decisions in their professional and personal lives. It is not simply about helping students understand and interpret a code of conduct. It is about helping our students view their decision making process through the lens of different ethical frameworks and understanding their own moral values more deeply.” Bruce Stenlake
Learning Outcomes
Exhibit ethical decision making and reasoning to identify creative solutions to ethical problems
Generic Rubric Lines – for inclusion in your Assessment Tasks.
CRITERION | High Distinction | Distinction | Credit | Pass | Fail |
Understand ethical approaches such as rights, utilitarianism and virtue ethics and the need for moral awareness and reflection on moral values |
Identify ethical approaches Evaluate different ethical approaches, using examples, analyse the impact ethical approaches have on moral values. Reflect on the impacts and assess how these ethical approaches will affect moral values. |
Identify ethical approaches Examines different ethical approaches, using examples, analyse the impact ethical approaches have on moral values |
Identify ethical approaches Compare different ethical approaches to explain their impact on moral values. |
Identify ethical approaches Describe how the ethical approach impacts on moral values. |
Does not identify ethical approaches or describe how the ethical approach impacts on moral values. |
CRITERION | High Distinction | Distinction | Credit | Pass | Fail |
Critically reflect on, discuss and challenge the values intrinsic in the different practices in which they participate. |
Identify intrinsic values in your profession. Evaluate the effect of these values on established professional practice. Uses ethical frameworks to justify impacts in professional practice. Develops alternate examples of how intrinsic values affect practice. |
Identify intrinsic values in your profession. Evaluate the effect of these values on established professional practice. Uses ethical frameworks to justify impacts in professional practice. Provide examples. |
Identify intrinsic values in your profession. Explains how these have impacted on professional practice using ethical frameworks. | Identify intrinsic values in your profession. Describe the impact on professional practice using ethical frameworks. | Does not identify intrinsic values in (your profession/topic) or describe the impact on professional practice using ethical frameworks. |
CRITERION | High Distinction | Distinction | Credit | Pass | Fail |
Form judgements and apply ethical decision making and reasoning to identify creative solutions to ethical problems. |
Evaluation of an ethical dilemma, a potential resolution of the dilemma and justification of the resolution using ethical frameworks. Includes independent evaluation of each resolution alternative in decision making process. |
Analysis of an ethical dilemma, a potential resolution of the dilemma and justification of the resolution using ethical frameworks. Includes comparison of ethical value of resolution alternatives. |
Explanation of an ethical dilemma, a potential resolution of the dilemma and justification of the resolution using ethical frameworks. Includes ethical reasoning for resolution alternatives. |
Description of an ethical dilemma, a potential resolution of the dilemma and justification of the resolution using ethical frameworks. | Does not describe an ethical dilemma. Has not proposed a potential resolution of the dilemma or a justification of the resolution using ethical frameworks. |