Measuring the longitudinal impact of teaching programming ethics to first years students
Résumé
In the second semester of the academic year 2020-2021 (January to May 2021), a group of 175 first year computer science students in the School of Computer Science at Technological University Dublin, Ireland, were presented with four case studies on programming-related ethical scenarios, which was assessed using a combination of continuous assessment and examinations as part of the Erasmus+ Ethics4EU project (O’Sullivan and Gordon, 2020). The goal of these cases was not to tell the students the “correct answer” to an ethical dilemma but rather to get them to explore in groups and reflect themselves on what they would do when presented with a particular scenario and what they think is the right thing to do.