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Name: Four Decision Scenarios in Academic Integrity
ID: m14039
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module modifies the decision making format published earlier in Connexions under the title, "Ethical Decision Making in Engineering." Students are presented with four cases involving challenges to academic integrity, Treasures from Troy, The Free Rider?, A Different Kind of Recycling, and Teachers Fight Back. Each of these decision scenarios provides a narrative that is terminated at a point of decision. Students are required to make a decision to bring the narrative to completion. To help focus matters, each decision scenario is followed by solution alternatives. Students are invited to evaluate and rank these alternatives in terms of three ethics tests (reversibility, harm/beneficence, and publicity). Another test, a feasibility test, invites students to think carefully about whether their ethical solution can be implemented and what kind of obstacles are likely to arise in its implementation. Each decision scenario/solution alternatives/test description set is followed by a solution evaluation matrix, a table where students discuss and evaluate the alternatives in terms of their ethics and feasibility. The final page of this activity provides a short history of each scenario. This module is being developed as a part of an NSF-funded project, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF SES 0551779.
Subject: Humanities
Keywords: Academic Integrity, Decision Making, EAC-Toolkit, Ethics
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Jose A. Cruz-Cruz (j.cruz@upr.edu), William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Copyright Holders: Jose A. Cruz-Cruz (j.cruz@upr.edu), William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Maintainers: Jose A. Cruz-Cruz (j.cruz@upr.edu), William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Latest version: 1.3 (history)
First publication date: Oct 1, 2006 5:26 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Mar 2, 2007 9:52 am US/Central
Based On: Ethics Toolkit - Open Module Template
Originally By: Jose A. Cruz-Cruz (j.cruz@upr.edu), William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)

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Version History

Version: 1.3 Mar 2, 2007 9:52 am US/Central by William Frey
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Minor edits
Version: 1.2 Mar 2, 2007 9:35 am US/Central by William Frey
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Updated abstract
Version: 1.1 Oct 1, 2006 6:41 pm GMT-5 by Jose A. Cruz-Cruz
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