Conference Session

Engineering Social and Human Ethical Impacts

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark L. Bourgeois, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

General Self-Efficacy Scale (NGSES) The NGSES measures the student’s attitude towards their own sense of efficacy.13 Forexample, it tries to capture how easily they may give up or how persistent they see themselves asbeing, and whether they see themselves as someone who usually succeeds or not, or who seeksout challenges or not. A sense of self-efficacy is critical to moral development, because it iscritical to actually following through with moral actions. A person who has a keen sense ofethics will not be an effective ethical actor unless he or she also has a sense that his or her actionscan make a difference and unless he or she will have the perseverance to follow through evenwhen obstacles are encountered. We see the Self-efficacy