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Brian P Coppola1, India C Plough2, Huai Sun3
1Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA. bcoppola@umich.edu.
Abstract:
An activity called Purple Dragons and Yellow Toadstools, originally reported in 1987 as a training activity for jurors, was adapted as a priming exercise for a unit on teaching research ethics with undergraduate students. In this activity, learners develop skills for building negotiated consensus. The procedure involves individuals' ranking 10-15 moral transgressions and/or legal violations followed by a small group discussion in order to arrive at an agreed-upon ranking by the team. The framework has proved to be quite flexible, adaptable to different subject areas and with different populations of students.
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