Earning Criteria

• Earners submit their evidence to an expert in Ethical Reasoning who then evaluates the evidence for competency. For the Gold level of this badge, students have met the following criteria:
• Earners can articulate their ethical stance and are clear about its authoritative sources. They can identify the authoritative source of their ethical stance and can recognize the limitations of their ethical stance.
• Earners can define ethical reasoning and can articulate the ethical stance of others. They demonstrate that they can suggest a path of action given these differing ethics.
• Earners can describe the importance of ethical reasoning in an organization. They can articulate examples of short- and long-term problems that emerge from a lack of ethical reasoning as well as can specify how ethical reasoning can be cultivated in an organization.
• Earners can define an ethical dilemma by identifying the different ethical stances of relevant stakeholders in a case presented and explaining why it leads to an ethical dilemma. In addition they can articulate a potential path to resolution of the dilemma for the case.
• Earners demonstrate that they understand the differences among the moral, ethical, and legal and are able to articulate how conflicts can occur between the moral and the legal. Earners provide an international example of how moral and legal matters vary between two nations.