SEED
Dr. Cynthia
Finelli,
Associate Research Scientist
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
DATE & TIME:
Monday, October 29th from 12:00 to 1:00 pm in the Large Conference Room
located on the 10th Floor of the ECJ Building.
Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP only. If
you would like to attend the seminar, please contact
Terri Lavorgna or call the
Academic Affairs Office at 471-7995 on or before October 26th.
OVERVIEW: A Dr. Cynthia Finelli, Director of the
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching North at the University of
Michigan, will summarize her research team's 7-year effort to discover the
causes of cheating among engineering undergraduates and to identify activities
that impact the ethical development of engineering undergraduates . She will
discuss the results of three major studies that surveyed a total of 1300
engineering and humanities undergraduates at eleven institutions and will
describe plans for the next phase of her team's work, which involves UT-Austin.
Dr. Hillary Hart, Distinguished Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in the
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering will lead an
interactive discussion about the implications for the team's findings in the
UT-Austin classroom .
You can find out more about Dr. Finelli and her project
Click Here.
All research methods and data security protocols have been reviewed by the
University of Michigan Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Behavioral
Sciences. If you have questions regarding this study, you may contact the
researchers at SEED-e3@umich.edu. If you
have questions regarding your rights as a participant in research, please
contact the U-M Institutional Review Board, 540 East Liberty St., Suite 202, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-2210, (734)-936-0933,
irbhsbs@umich.edu.