In an earlier post, I shared the responses freshman engineering students had made (via electronic clickers) to a few questions I asked them during an ethics lecture I was giving them.
My commenters are pretty sure I left out options in the multiple choice that should have been included.
In this post, I consider some of those other options, and I try to explain my thinking in formulating the questions and the possible responses the way I did.
(Also, I’ll include the questions themselves, since the Quimble polls I used to present them in the original post seem not to be working at the moment.)

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In the freshman introduction to engineering class, where I am teaching the ethics module, the students have electronic clickers with which to respond in real time to (multiple choice) questions posed to them in lecture. I took advantage of this handy technology to get their responses to a few questions on cheating. I’m presenting the questions here in poll form so you can play along at home:

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var all_polls = document.getElementsByClassName(‘quimble_poll_div’);
for (var i = 0; i < all_polls.length; i++) {
all_polls[i].style.width = '500px';
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var all_polls = document.getElementsByClassName(‘quimble_poll_div’);
for (var i = 0; i < all_polls.length; i++) {
all_polls[i].style.width = '500px';
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(In the event that Quimble is down and the poll is thus inaccessible, you can view the questions in this follow-up post.)
What do you suppose the students said?

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