FUKADA Shozo, NAKAMURA Atsushi, OKABE Shigeto, FUSE Izumi, UEHARA Tetsutaro, MURATA Ikuya, YAMADA Tsuneo, TATSUMI Takeo, NAKANISHI Michio, TAGAWA Takahiro, YAMANOUE Takashi
Japan Journal of Educational Technology, 37(2) 97-105, Aug, 2013 Peer-reviewed
In this research, new questionnaire was developed to measure judgmental and behavioral aspects of information ethics by asking students to give responses to unethical use of computers and the internet. Four hundred and thirteen undergraduate students were answered the developed questionnaire. Relationships of measured information ethics with gender, everyday ethics, experience in computers and the internet, and experiences in information ethics education were examined. Results demonstrated that female students were more ethical than male students on both of judgmental and behavioral aspects of information ethics. Everyday ethics had strong impact on information ethics. Students who use computers and the internet for practical purpose had more ethical than the others. More experiences in information ethics classes in universities enhanced both aspects of information ethics. Information ethics classes in high school had effects, but it was less influential than ones in university. Lastly, possible combination effects of everyday ethics, experience in computers and the internet, and experiences in information ethics education on information echics were examined, but no such effect was detected by analysis of variance.