Changing the Engineering Student Culture with Respect to Academic Integrity and Ethics
Changing the Engineering Student Culture with Respect to Academic Integrity and Ethics
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改变工程学生的学术诚信和道德文化
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发表时间：
2016
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3.7
通讯作者：
Loreal Camp
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作者：
T. VanDeGrift;H. Dillon;Loreal Camp
工程师创造飞机，建筑物，医疗设备和软件，以及许多其他东西。工程师遵守职业道德准则，以维护人们的安全和职业声誉。同样，学生遵守学术诚信守则，同时学习知识和必要的技能，为工程和计算专业做好准备。本文报道了旨在提高工程专业学生学术诚信和道德文化的研究。为了了解美国一所大学的现有文化，对学生进行了一项基于全国作弊调查的调查。自我报告作弊的发生率和不报告其他作弊者的发生率表明，这种文化与其他机构相似。在工程课程的介绍中设计并测试了两种干预措施：两个案例研究，学生在团队和全班中讨论，以及一封推荐信，学生在信中写关于自己（性格，优势，道德决策的例子）三年后。两次干预后对学生进行了调查。结果显示，一年级的工程专业学生喜欢有一个学术诚信的代码，他们希望获得学位没有作弊，但不到一半的学生会报告另一个作弊的学生。推荐信作业对学生思考道德、性格和行为有一定的影响。未来改变学生文化的工作将继续以自上而下（课程干预）和自下而上（学生驱动的干预）的方式进行。
Engineers create airplanes, buildings, medical devices, and software, amongst many other things. Engineers abide by a professional code of ethics to uphold people’s safety and the reputation of the profession. Likewise, students abide by a code of academic integrity while learning the knowledge and necessary skills to prepare them for the engineering and computing professions. This paper reports on studies designed to improve the engineering student culture with respect to academic integrity and ethics. To understand the existing culture at a university in the USA, a survey based on a national survey about cheating was administered to students. The incidences of self-reported cheating and incidences of not reporting others who cheat show the culture is similar to other institutions. Two interventions were designed and tested in an introduction to an engineering course: two case studies that students discussed in teams and the whole class, and a letter of recommendation assignment in which students wrote about themselves (character, strengths, examples of ethical decisions) three years into the future. Students were surveyed after the two interventions. Results show that first-year engineering students appreciate having a code of academic integrity and they want to earn their degree without cheating, yet less than half of the students would report on another cheating student. The letter of recommendation assignment had some impact on getting students to think about ethics, their character, and their actions. Future work in changing the student culture will continue in both a top-down (course interventions) and bottom-up (student-driven interventions) manner.