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Development of and influence on ethical beliefs were surveyed at a major research university campus. Courses were ranked by faculty and students as most important. Mentors were ranked eighth in a list of nine factors. Of the 1,152 returned student questionnaires, 97 (8.4%) made the effort to write comments, and of the 610 faculty questionnaires returned, 64 (10%) wrote comments. These comments were rich in detail and description.
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The research reported in this paper was supported in part by grant SB 93-11328 from the National Science Foundation. An earlier version of this paper was presented at a National Science Foundation sponsored conference on Mentoring and Research Values: Students as Vital Human Resources, Chicago, USA, March 1995.
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Sprague, R.L., Daw, J. & Roberts, G.C. Influences on the ethical beliefs of graduate students concerning research. SCI ENG ETHICS 7, 507–520 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-001-0008-8
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