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The Effects of Fraternity and Sorority Membership in the Fourth Year of College: A Detrimental or Value-Added Component of Undergraduate Education?
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Hevel, Michael S.; Martin, Georgianna L.; Weeden, Dustin D.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
We use a longitudinal national dataset to explore the direct and conditional effects of fraternity/sorority membership on students' educational outcomes in the 4th year of college. Controlling for a variety of potentially confounding variables, including pretest measures of the outcomes, we find no direct effect of fraternity/sorority membership…
Descriptors: Student Organizations, Fraternities, Sororities, Undergraduate Students
A Study of Moral Reasoning Development of Teacher Education Students in Northern Louisiana
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Wade, April Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This quantitative descriptive study identified the differences in the moral reasoning development levels between undergraduate teacher education students enrolled in methods courses and graduate teacher education students enrolled in an alternative certification education program using the Defining Issues Test-2 instrument. Based on Kohlberg's…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Abstract Reasoning, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Diversity Courses and Students' Moral Reasoning: A Model of Predispositions and Change
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Hurtado, Sylvia; Mayhew, Matthew J.; Engberg, Mark E. – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine how moral reasoning develops for 236 students enrolled in either a diversity course or a management course. These courses were compared based on the level of diversity inclusion and type of pedagogy employed in the classroom. We used causal modelling to compare the two types of courses, controlling for the…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Abstract Reasoning, Introductory Courses, Cultural Pluralism
Becoming Scholars: Examining the Link between Moral Problem-Solving and Academic Authorship Practices in Future Educational Leaders in One Southern State
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Greer, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The public expects its educational leaders--from instructional leaders and principals to college administrators and deans--to be moral exemplars. Nowhere is moral behavior more central to the central mission of teaching and learning than in the realm of academic integrity, where decisions are made daily about grading, testing, promotion,…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Problem Solving, Authors, Moral Issues
Moral Comprehension and What It Might Tell Us about Moral Reasoning and Political Orientation
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Marx, Benjamin R.; Job, R. F. Soames; White, Fiona A.; Wilson, J. Clare – Journal of Moral Education, 2007
Comprehension of moral reasoning is important both for successful moral education and for Kohlbergian claims that moral reasoning development is cognitive in nature. Because a psychometrically appropriate moral comprehension instrument does not appear to exist, the Moral Comprehension Questionnaire (MCQ) was constructed in Study 1 and displayed…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Abstract Reasoning, Political Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)