• can identify an ethical issue in a problem or case

• unable to identify

• can identify the ethical issue but unclear ebaloration

• identification of the ethical issue and explain the underlying principle being violated

• can use problem solving stages to arrive at a resolution for an ethical issue

• unable to use stages

• uses stages but incomplete or brief

• thorough and complete description of stages to resolve the issue

• can identify the stakeholders involved in an ethical issue

• unable to identify stakeholders

• can identify stakeholders but unclear on impact

identify and describe potential impacts

• can state the approach to ethics being used (e.g., justice, utilitarian, etc.)

unable to state approach

able to state approach but unclear or minimal description of approach

clear and elaborated statement of approach

• can explain how ethical reasoning develops (e.g., Kohlberg, Belenky, Perry or other theory)

• unable to explain

• general explanation of development

• detailed explanation of development

• can describe how to promote development of an ethical organizational climate

unable to describe

can describe but vague or incomplete

thorough description

• can describe the impact of unethical behavior in an organization

unable to describe impact

can describe 2 impacts

can describe 3 or more

can identify risks to participants in research

unable to identify risks

can identify but unclear explanation

clear identification and explanation

can suggest ways of reducing risks to participants in research

unable to make suggestions

makes suggestions but not elaborate

clear and elaborated suggestions

can describe how to conduct an ethics audit in an organization

unable to describe audit

can describe audit but is incomplete or vague

thorough explanation of audit

• can locate and know a code of ethics for their field or management specialty

• unable to locate code

• can locate and generally describe the code

• able to locate and describe code in detail