HR: 1340h
AN: ED23B-1287    [Abstracts]
TI: Science Ethics in the High School Classroom: A Pilot Study Using Social Judgment Theory
AU: * Uliasz, C T
EM: connie@atmos.colostate.edu
AF: Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO 80523, United States
AU: Swartz, D
EM: dswartz@psdschools.org
AF: Rocky Mountain High School, 1300 West Swallow Road, Ft. Collins, CO 80526, United States
AU: Lacy, M
EM: michael.lacy@colostate.edu
AF: Colorado State University, Department of Sociology, Ft. Collins, CO 80523, United States
AB: Using a quantitative Social Judgment Analysis with content informed by traditional western ethical theory, we analyzed students' response patterns before and after our educational intervention. Working with an advanced placement environmental science class at Rocky Mountain High School, the goal of our analysis was not simply to understand whether students changed their ethical decisions, but rather to understand how and whether they changed the structure of *how* they think about ethical questions in an environmental context.
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
DE: 6699 General or miscellaneous
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting