Learning Outcome Three: Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading responses for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
Introduction: Throughout my academic career, I have been a consistent reader. However, as I got to high school and encountered more challenging texts, I quickly realized that I needed to slow down my reading and break down what I am reading. Instead of skimming through words or phrases that I did not understand, I had to dial into the reading and focus on what the author was portraying to me as the reader.
Slowing down my pace of reading with difficult texts and asking questions about things I may be unsure of proved to be greatly beneficial. I struggled when I was forced to post sticky notes on pages or highlight phrases I found important because I would oftentimes not include anything I did not understand in these notes or highlights. Asking Questions and more carefully reading texts helped me in gaining a better understanding of what the theme of a given text is/was, especially with difficult texts.
I annotated this article in the following way. “This research relates to the…” (p.451) was a quote that made me question how college ethics can differ from student to student, based off a multitude of different variables. “A study of 144 schools…” (p.451) brought to my attention the fact that only 40% of colleges offered business ethics courses in 1988. The fact that college students are used in this survey reminded me of The Stanford Prison Experiment, which also used college students to conduct research.
Journal Entry: A study administered with 391 college business students varying in levels of academic achievement were surveyed on possible scenarios of hypothetical questions in a business setting regarding ethics. This survey asked students whether they agreed, disagreed, or were undecided on given statements that were considered to test the ethical boundaries. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between male and female responses, if there was a difference in response with various stages of education in business and if students had taken formal ethics courses in prior education.
Through the statistical analysis, survey answers were able to conclude that there was no correlation between gender and previous formal ethical education and views towards ethically challenging questions posed in the study. The only hypothesis that was shown to be true was the correlation between the level of academic achievement and responses to ethical scenarios.
Q1: “This research relates to the…” (p.451)
This quote shows how college ethics can differ from student to student, based off of multiple variables.
Q2: “Research has been conducted to…” (p.455)
How do different business ethics courses produce different answers on a survey? This quote looked at what classes produced which answers in a survey on business ethics.
Q3: “After extensive study and research…” (p.462)
Aggressive approaches are discussed within this quote, yet they are not explained. I do not understand exactly what the author means by an “aggressive approach.”
I1: “A study of 144 schools…” (p.451)
In 1988, only 40% of colleges and universities offered classes that dealt with business ethics.
I2: “This study found that 56%…” (p.453)
This found that 56% of college business students believed that those who they knew would be likely to break the rules of business ethics.
I3: “Of the eleven statements that…” (p.462)
This quote found that varying levels of schooling (freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior) yielded different answers to the survey used in the study. The exact cause of different answers is not known, but is speculated to be due to maturity.
C1: With business ethics being the main theme of this research, it reminded me of the movie The Wolf of Wallstreet as in the movie, business ethics are not used at all.
C2: The tables of survey responses within the research reminded me of a case study I had examined in a psychology class in high school.
C3: The fact that college students are used in this survey reminded me of The Stanford Prison Experiment, which also used college students to conduct research.
