A psychological model that integrates ethics in engineering education

Magun-Jackson, Susan

doi:10.1007/s11948-004-0017-5

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“…The Defining Issues Test (DIT) has been widely utilized to measure moral judgment since its introduction in the 1970s, and it has been shown to be a reliable and valid measure of characteristics of moral judgment. 9 , 35 - 37 Several studies using the DIT have examined the moral reasoning of student cohorts, including nursing, 38 - 40 medicine, 32 , 41 - 43 engineering, 44 business, 45 - 48 teaching, 49 veterinary medicine, 50 law, 51 seminary, 52 and journalism. 53 Because of its broad use in the research on moral development, this instrument was utilized for this study.…”

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The failure of medical education to develop moral reasoning in medical students

Murrell

2014

Int J Med Educ

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Objectives The goal of this study was to determine differences in moral judgment among students in medical school.Methods This cross-sectional study involved students currently enrolled in undergraduate medical education. Recruited via email, 192 students took an online version of the Defining Issues Test to determine their current stage of moral judgment, as well as their percentage of post conventional thought. Independent variables included year of graduation, which indicated curriculum completion as well as participation in a professionalism course. Data was analyzed primarily using One-Way Analysis of Variance.Results Of the 192 participants, 165 responses were utilized. ANOVA showed no significant differences in moral judgment between or among any of the student cohorts, which were grouped by year of matriculation. Comparisons included students in the four years of medical school, divided by graduation year; students about to graduate (n=30) vs. those still in school (n=135); and students who had participated in a course in professionalism (n=91) vs. those who had not (n=74). Conclusions These results demonstrate a lack of evolution in the moral reasoning of medical students and raise the issue of what might stimulate positive changes in moral judgment during the medical school experience.

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The failure of medical education to develop moral reasoning in medical students

Murrell

2014

Int J Med Educ

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“…A decade ago, researchers started to consider other psychological variables in the measurement of engineering ethics. In 2004 , Magun-Jackson proposed a psychological model based on Kolhberg’s stages of moral development to integrate ethics education in the engineering curriculum (Magun-Jackson 2004 ). Three conference papers, published in 2005, 2006 and 2007, discussed research efforts to develop an instrument to assess perceptions and attitudes toward cheating among engineering students (PECES-2 Survey on academic integrity) (Finelli et al 2005 , 2007 ; Harding et al 2006 ).…”

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Engineering Student’s Ethical Awareness and Behavior: A New Motivational Model

Bairaktarova

Woodcock

2016

Sci Eng Ethics

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Professional communities are experiencing scandals involving unethical and illegal practices daily. Yet it should not take a national major structure failure to highlight the importance of ethical awareness and behavior, or the need for the development and practice of ethical behavior in engineering students. Development of ethical behavior skills in future engineers is a key competency for engineering schools as ethical behavior is a part of the professional identity and practice of engineers. While engineering educators have somewhat established instructional methods to teach engineering ethics, they still rely heavily on teaching ethical awareness, and pay little attention to how well ethical awareness predicts ethical behavior. However the ability to exercise ethical judgement does not mean that students are ethically educated or likely to behave in an ethical manner. This paper argues measuring ethical judgment is insufficient for evaluating the teaching of engineering ethics, because ethical awareness has not been demonstrated to translate into ethical behavior. The focus of this paper is to propose a model that correlates with both, ethical awareness and ethical behavior. This model integrates the theory of planned behavior, person and thing orientation, and spheres of control. Applying this model will allow educators to build confidence and trust in their students’ ability to build a professional identity and be prepared for the engineering profession and practice.

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“…Business school educators have long debated whether ethics is best taught in ethics courses within the professional education curriculum (Sachdev, 2003), integrated across the professional education curriculum (Lund Dean & Beggs, 2006;Magun-Jackson, 2004;Oddo, 1997;Woo, 2003), or both (Garten, 2005). Some advocate stand-alone courses because business professors may feel uncomfortable teaching ethical theories that are out of their areas of discipline expertise and beyond their training (Oddo, 1997).…”

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George Williams in Thailand: an Ethical Decision-Making Exercise

James¹,

Smith

2007

Journal of Management Education

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This article presents a classroom ethical decision-making exercise designed to help students make reasoned ethical decisions while gaining insight into their own and others' ethical decision-making strategies. During the exercise, students individually analyze an original mini-case, then meet in small groups to reach consensus on the advice and ethical decision-making strategy to offer the entrepreneur in the case. The exercise satisfies three learning objectives for students: understanding ethical decision-making strategies, increasing awareness of one's own ethical decision-making criteria, and understanding the bases for diverse group members' (often different) ethical decision-making strategies. Evidence of student learning shows that these three learning objectives are exceeded in that the exercise also spurs students to integrate their learning of ethical decision making with their learning of the organizational behavior concepts of group dynamics, conflict management, and personality.

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A psychological model that integrates ethics in engineering education

Cited by 14 publications

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The failure of medical education to develop moral reasoning in medical students

The failure of medical education to develop moral reasoning in medical students

Engineering Student’s Ethical Awareness and Behavior: A New Motivational Model

George Williams in Thailand: an Ethical Decision-Making Exercise

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