Title

A Case Study on Research in Engineering Education: Designing, Testing, and Administering the PACES-2 Survey on Academic Integrity

Author Info

Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Jamie L. Szwalek, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University
Trevor S. Harding, Kettering UniversityFollow

Recommended Citation

Published in Proceedings of the 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference: Indianapolis, IN, October 19, 2005, pages FIE-1-FIE-7.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2005.1612013.

Abstract

Most engineering educators excel at planning and conducting technical research in their field, but few are proficient doing this for a project in engineering education. Recently, however, there has been increased emphasis on conducting rigorous research in engineering education. This paper provides practical advice for planning and conducting such research. The authors use their long term project to predict academic dishonesty in engineering college students as a case study representing one approach to research in engineering education. In particular, the authors present the design, testing, and administration of a two-part survey instrument to collect information from college students about their decisions related to cheating.

Disciplines

Materials Science and Engineering

Copyright

2005 IEEE.

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