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Murray, Paul V. – 1986
The relationship between a two-semester university-based legal clinic experience and the moral judgment of third-year law school student participants was investigated. A nonstandard form of the Kohlberg Moral Judgment Interview (MJI) was administered to 20 students at the beginning of the clinic and to the remaining 14 students near the completion…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Law Students, Legal Education (Professions)
Peer reviewedNarvaez, Darcia – Journal of Moral Education, 2001
Reviews studies examining differences in moral schema development, using techniques that range from measuring implicit knowledge (such as the defining issues test) and explicit knowledge (such as with the moral judgment interview). Finds significant differences in the comprehension of moral narratives based on age/education and level of expertise.…
Descriptors: Age, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Ethical Instruction
Peer reviewedSkoe, Eva E.; Diessner, Rhett – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Investigated the relationship between identity and moral reasoning in high school and college students. Scores on a new measure of moral reasoning, the Ethic of Care Interview (ECI), were found to be significantly related to age, ego identity, and scores on Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview. The relationship between identity and ECI scores was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Ethics, High School Students
Peer reviewedRies, Steven I. – Journal of Moral Education, 1992
Reports a study involving students who were exposed to an educational intervention curriculum designed to facilitate moral development. Describes a means of promoting moral reasoning through conceptualizing and integrating essential philosophical concepts. Concludes that the curriculum is effective in stimulating moral development and principled…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Curriculum Design, Developmental Stages, Ethical Instruction
Adams, Paul S. – Moral Education Forum, 1988
Reports on a portion of research conducted for the author's doctoral study, "Peer Influence and Moral Decision-Making in Undergraduate Cliques." Compares undergraduates' moral reasoning on a standard Kohlberg Moral Judgment Interview with moral reasoning verbalized in a group situation with close personal friends. (GEA)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Moral Values
Download full textDiessner, Rhett – 1991
This paper examines the moral reasoning of preservice and inservice teachers; reviews and summarizes empirical studies that have examined teachers' levels of principled reasoning; relates that information to the construction of democratic classrooms, which are a critique of both authoritarian and status quo democratic systems; and presents…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Behavior Change, Democratic Values, Educational Environment
