engineering
jstemwedel | December 1, 2007In an earlier post, I shared the responses freshman engineering students had made (via electronic clickers) to a few questions I asked them during an ethics lecture I was giving them.
My commenters are pretty sure I left out options in the multiple choice that should have been included.
In this post, I consider some of those other options, and I try to explain my thinking in formulating the questions and the possible responses the way I did.
(Also, I'll include the questions themselves, since the Quimble polls I used to present them in the original post seem not to be working at the moment.)…
jstemwedel | November 28, 2007In the freshman introduction to engineering class, where I am teaching the ethics module, the students have electronic clickers with which to respond in real time to (multiple choice) questions posed to them in lecture. I took advantage of this handy technology to get their responses to a few questions on cheating. I'm presenting the questions here in poll form so you can play along at home:
(In the event that Quimble is down and the poll is thus inaccessible, you can view the questions in this follow-up post.)
What do you suppose the students said?
On why they don't cheat, the…
jstemwedel | August 23, 2007Since you all were so helpful in response to my query about how engineers are different from scientists, I hope you won't mind if I pick your brains again.
Specifically, I'm after information about the sorts of engineering labs (or whatever the right engineering analog for "labs" would be -- projects?) freshman engineering students typically encounter.
What I'm interested in is the typical ways that the task for the students as envisioned by the instructor might go off the rails, presenting the students with temptations to do something to recover the hope of a good grade -- something of which…