A survey of students' ethical attitudes using computer-related scenarios

  • Authors:
  • Cindy Meyer Hanchey;John Kingsbury

  • Affiliations:
  • Oklahoma Baptist University;Nova Southeastern University

  • Venue:
  • ECA '94 Proceedings of the conference on Ethics in the computer age
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Many studies exist that examine ethical beliefs and attitudes of university students attending medium or large institutions. There are also many studies which examine ethical attitudes and beliefs of computer science and computer information systems majors. None, however, examines ethical attitudes of university students (regardless of undergraduate major) at a small, Christian, liberal arts institution regarding computer-related situations. This paper will present data accumulated by an on-going study in which students are presented seven scenarios—all of which involve some aspect of computing technology. These students were randomly selected from a small, Christian, liberal-arts university.