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Work In Progress – Building the Survey of Engineering Ethical Development (SEED) Instrument
(2008-10)
When developing surveys, researchers can readily identify the concepts they intend to study, but how do they create individual survey items that will most accurately
measure those concepts? Here we describe the first year ...
Understanding the Differences between Faculty and Administrator Goals and Students’ Experiences with Ethics Education
(2010)
There is strong agreement about the need for effective ethics education in engineering academic programs, but students who graduate with a bachelor’s degree in engineering continue to be unprepared to face the ethical ...
Cheating: Students attitudes and practical approaches to dealing with it
(2000-10)
The preliminary results of educational research conducted at Kettering University is described in which students in an introductory Engineering Materials course
(MFGE-370) were asked to complete a survey on their perceptions ...
We can’t get no satisfaction!: The relationship between students’ ethical reasoning and their satisfaction with engineering ethics education
(2011-06)
Student satisfaction is a common metric for evaluating classes and other educational programs,
and sometimes that satisfaction is seen as a proxy for effectiveness of those programs. For this
paper, we examine student ...
Useful Approaches to Preventing Academic Dishonesty in the Classroom
(2001)
Over the past three decades, academic dishonesty (a.k.a. cheating) has become an increasingly common occurrence among college-aged students, and engineering students are known to be among the most frequent culprits. At ...
Factors influencing engineering students’ decisions to cheat by type of assessment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-04-19)
Academic dishonesty (cheating) has been prevalent on college campuses for decades, and the percentage of students reporting cheating varies by college major. This study, based on a survey of 643 undergraduate engineering ...