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Dalton Miklozek, Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The development of the college student is influenced inside and outside of the classroom. Research supports that the traditional college experience assists or influences the students' identities relating to moral development. More and more students are completing a portion of their course work online. Yet higher education experts are not aware of…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Online Courses, Service Learning, College Students
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Saculla, Meghan Marie; Choi, Youn-Jeng; Thoma, Stephen J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Using multilevel modeling, moral reasoning was investigated with respect to individual characteristics and school-related (i.e. university/college) factors. Researchers observed significant effects for the individual characteristic of political orientation. Additionally, all investigated school-related factors were significant. Only main effects…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Values, Measures (Individuals)
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Auger, Giselle A.; Gee, Charlie – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2016
The purpose of this study was to add to the limited body of knowledge on the effect of the media ethics course, specifically to investigate the effect of the course on the growth in moral judgment reasoning of students through a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test analysis using the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2). Results demonstrated…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Moral Development, Moral Values, Values
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Bell, Patrick E.; Liu, Leping – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2015
This study used a quasi-experimental design to examine whether exposure to moral development theory and dilemma discussion in the asynchronous online learning environment resulted in significant gains in principled moral reasoning (DIT N2-scores) of undergraduate elementary and secondary education students. Participants were undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Values, Undergraduate Students, Logical Thinking
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Apostolou, Barbara; Dull, Richard B.; Schleifer, Lydia L. F. – Accounting Education, 2013
Faculty tasked with revising the accounting curriculum to incorporate an ethics component may benefit from the experiences reported in the literature. We construct and describe a framework for the pedagogy of accounting ethics based upon extant literature. Our purpose is to present the cumulative contributions to the literature in a fashion that…
Descriptors: Ethics, Accounting, College Faculty, Curriculum Development
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
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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
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Mayhew, Matthew J.; Seifert, Tricia A.; Pascarella, Ernest T. – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
Understanding the developmental issues first-time college students face is critical for scholars and educators interested in learning and development. This purpose of this study was to investigate the differential impact of first-year college experiences on the moral reasoning development of 1,469 students in moral transition versus those in moral…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Moral Values, Thinking Skills, Student Experience
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Beggs, Jeri Mullins – Marketing Education Review, 2011
The ineffectiveness of business ethics education has received attention from the popular press and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business after repeated ethics scandals. One possibility is that teaching ethics is different from other content areas because ethics is best learned when the student does not know it is being taught.…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Ethics, Ethical Instruction, Teaching Methods