Core Objective Definition
Personal Responsibility (PR)
ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making
Assessment Resources
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Ethical Reasoning VALUE RubricThe THECB definition of Personal Responsibility above is derived from the American Association of Colleges & Universities definition of Ethical Reasoning. This site provides further definition and a rubric for assessment from AAC&U.
Further Reading
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Personal and Social Responsibility Inventory"The Personal and Social Responsibility Inventory: An Institutional Climate Measure is a campus climate survey developed originally as part of an initiative called Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility. Sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and directed by Caryn McTighe Musil, Core Commitments was supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation."
View the Publications tab from this link to view resulting research.
Websites
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LEAP Texas Resources on Personal ResponsibilityLEAP Texas provides further examples, resources, and rubric links for incorporating and assessing Personal Responsibility.
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Promising Practices for Personal and Social Responsibility: Findings from a National Research CollaborativeA publication from the Association of American Colleges and Universities' (AAC&U) major
initiative - Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility.
Topical Presentation
Presentation from Dr. Nakia Pope, a LEAP Texas Faculty Fellow, about what the objective "Personal Responsibility" means, and "how it might be taught and assessed." Retrieved from, with additional resources, on the LEAP Texas website.
Featured Monographs
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The Power of Ethics
by
Call Number: BJ1419 .L53 2021Publication Date: 2021-01-05Citing a pervasive moral decline in business, politics, and technology, a Stanford University ethics instructor and corporate ethics advisor outlines strategic practices for ethical decision making that can transform society for the better.
We're living in a time of moral decline. How do we find a way forward? Today's ethical challenges are increasingly gray, often without a clear right or wrong solution. Liautaud shows how ethics can be used to create a sea change of positive decisions that can ripple outward to our families, communities, workplaces, and the wider world-- offering unprecedented opportunity for good. -- adapted from front flap
