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Al-Shurai, Saad – Education, 2012
This study was conducted to investigate the moral development of one hundred Kuwaiti high school teachers. They ranged in age from 23 to 48 years with a mean of 28.6 years and a standard deviation of 8.3 years. The teachers' individual moral judgment levels were assessed by the Defining Issues Test (DIT)--an objective test designed by James Rest…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Objective Tests, Moral Development, Secondary School Teachers
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Proios, Miltiadis; Athanailidis, Joannis; Arvanitidou, Vasiliki – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
The purpose of the present paper is to examine the teachers' cognitive structures through moral judgment schemas, as well as whether the above-mentioned structures diversify among teachers, depending on education level, specialty, age, teaching experience, and gender. Moreover, another aim is to examine whether these cognitive structures can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Value Judgment, Teaching Experience
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Nokelainen, Petri; Tirri, Kirsi – High Ability Studies, 2010
In this paper we investigate whether the level of motivation among mathematically gifted adolescents is related to their moral and religious judgment. The sample consists of first-year students (N = 20) at a Finnish private and independent boarding school specializing in mathematics. We formulated the following research questions: (RQ1) Is the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Boarding Schools, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation