Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Scott Bell, Northwest Missouri State University; Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University; Eleanor C Sayre, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

courses, we determined that we would not be able to simply adapt theapproaches used to develop these survey instruments into a new survey for cybersecurity. Instead,we would need to first identify how students relate to a course in cybersecurity. Therefore, wechose to first perform a qualitative study of students enrolled in an introductory cybersecuritycourse and then use those results to inform our development of the quantitative tool. 14Initial Qualitative StudyOver the course of a semester, we performed 3 rounds of semi-structured interviews with studentsenrolled in an introductory cybersecurity course designed for upper division undergraduate andfirst year graduate students. 7,27 Our goal was to discover those topics and experiences that