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Direct linkSaculla, 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)
Saculla, Meghan Marie; O'Connor, Erin; Thoma, Stephen J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The Center for the Study of Ethical Development archives DIT data and, in this way, it is possible to investigate normative trends, which is the purpose of the present study. Specifically, online DIT-2 data is used. Results support the notion that the primary difference in the paper/pencil version and the online version of the DIT-2 is simply the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Moral Values, Moral Development, Test Norms
Loomis, Michael J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research uses the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2) to investigate the cognitive moral development of college seniors in adult degree completion (ADC) programs and traditional undergraduate (TU) programs at three Council of Christian College and University institutions. Overall, TU students had significantly higher scores on the DIT-2, TU…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Cognitive Development, Moral Development
Thoma, Stephen J.; Derryberry, Pitt; Narvaez, Darcia – High Ability Studies, 2009
Critics of moral judgment measures question whether the obtained pattern of relationships between moral judgment scores and outcome variables might be better explained by verbal/general ability. To address this concern, we assess the degree to which moral judgment development reduces to verbal ability using the Defining Issues Test (DIT). Our…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Moral Development, Decision Making, Moral Values
Crowson, H. Michael; DeBacker, Teresa K.; Thoma, Stephen J. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
Emler, Renwick, and Malone (1983) argued against a developmental interpretation of the Defining Issues Test (DIT), suggesting instead that it actually measures a social psychological phenomenon--political identification. On the other hand, Sanders, Lubinski, and Benbow (1995) have argued that DIT scores measure intellectual ability. In this study,…
Descriptors: Tests, Political Attitudes, Identification, Intelligence
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)
