Climate/Culture

A key component of the Project for Scholarly Integrity is an agreement by the seven institutions that received funding to participate to use a common instrument to assess the institutional climate for scholarly integrity and the responsible conduct of research. The instrument agreed upon by awardees for adoption has been developed by Carol Thrush and Brian Martinson, working in close collaboration with the consortium of awardees that includes Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Findings from these surveys will be used to assess the value of university interventions and activities over time and to inform national understanding of the institutional factors that shape the environment for scholarly integrity and education in the responsible conduct of research.

The climate assessment instrument developed by Thrush/Martinson et al is scheduled to become available to all universities in 2010 through a “creative commons” license. 

For more information about climate assessment approaches, see Climate Assessment Resources.