Assessing Engineering Students' Understanding of Their Professional and Ethical Responsibilities

工程-其他(59)这个项目由匹兹堡大学和科罗拉多矿业学院的一组研究人员进行，调查基于网络的系统的可行性，以评估工程专业学生识别和解决类似于实践中遇到的道德困境的能力。调查人员正在测试一种“纸笔”版本，它精心构建了场景，并在100名学生身上制定了良好的评分规则。最后，他们正在评估使用神经网络来预测学生分类。为了评估他们的工具，他们会将他们的结果与后续采访的结果进行比较，并通过一个结合了许多衡量标准的“三角”过程来估计真实的结果。他们计划在主要的工程教育会议上描述他们的结果，如果有必要，他们将在存档的期刊上发表。

Engineering - Other (59)This project, being conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Colorado School of Mines, investigates the feasibility of a web-based system for assessing an engineering student's ability to recognize and resolve ethical dilemmas similar to those encountered in practice. The investigators are testing a "pencil-and-paper" version with carefully constructed scenarios and well developed scoring rubrics on 100 students. Finally, they are evaluating the use of a neural network to predict student classification. In order to evaluate their tool, they will compare their results to those derived from follow-up interviews and a "triangulation" process that combines many measures to estimate the true outcome. They plan to describe their results at major engineering education meetings and, if warranted, they will publish in archived journals.