[EMAIL PROTECTED] (EAKIN MARK E) wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> A software publisher sent me a stat package that teaches and grades > students. He also sent copies that my students could use for free for > one > semester. This is okay. However he offered to pay me if I would > require > my class to use the software and if I would sent an anonymous list of > their grades and their scores from the use of software to him. After > asking several faculty here, they reaffirmed my belief that acceptance > of this payment would be unethical if not illegal at my university. > Soon I am going to send a letter to the publisher indicating my > conerns. However I was curious to see if people on the list feel this > is as unethical as I feel it is. > > Mark Eakin > Associate Professor > Information Systems and Management Sciences Department > University of Texas at Arlington > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ======================================================= Hmmm. What would be the difference if you had personally written the textbook and subsequently required students to purchase it for the class? Wouldn't you profit from that as well? OTOH, you are paid by the university and they may have rules and regs about certain outside "payments" in such matters. One question is would you use this software ahead of other materials because of personal gain? Why does the publisher need the anonymous grades? Wouldn't student feedback about the materials suffice? One solution might be to ask the students how they feel about these issues. If no one sees a conflict nor an invasion of privacy and there are no university proscriptions, it would seem to be permissible although on the margins. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
