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Ashby-King, Drew T.; Boyd, Karen D. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2020
The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the effect of a curricular application of the integrative ethical education (IEE) model (Narvaez, 2006; Narvaez & Bock, 2014) and its effect on first-year college students' ethical development. Using a pretest posttest design, participants' moral judgment and reasoning were measured…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, College Freshmen, Ethics, Moral Development
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Cam, Zekeriya; Seydoogullari, Sedef; Cavdar, Duygu; Cok, Figen – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
Most of the information in the moral development literature depends on Theories of Piaget and Kohlberg. The theoretical contribution by Gilligan and Turiel are not widely known and not much resource is available in Turkish. For this reason introducing and discussing the theories of Gilligan and Turiel and more comprehensive perspective for moral…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Value Judgment, Ethics, Moral Development
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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
Riegle, Sandra E.; Frye, Ann W.; Glenn, Jason; Smith, Kirk L. – Online Submission, 2012
Teachers tasked with developing moral character in future physicians face an array of pedagogic challenges, among them identifying tools to measure progress in instilling the requisite skill set. One validated instrument for assessing moral judgment is the Defining Issues Test (DIT-2). Based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg, the test's main…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Physicians, Statistical Analysis
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Oja, Sharon Nodie; Graham, Suzanne E.; Andrew, Michael D. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2011
The goal of this study was to investigate how moral development changes over time for teacher education master's students during their year-long internship. Data on the Defining Issues Test-2 was collected at three points in time during the full-year teaching internships (beginning, end of first semester, and end of second semester). These…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Attitude Change, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Maeda, Yukiko; Thoma, Steve J.; Bebeau, Muriel J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
This study examines variation in moral judgment level as measured by the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2; J. R. Rest & D. Narvaez, 1998), based on individual demographic information and educational contexts. Individual DIT-2 scores and demographic information were obtained from the archived data sets housed at the Center for the Study of Ethical…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Value Judgment, Moral Development, Role
Laddu, Nandini; Kapadia, Shagufa – International Education Journal, 2007
The study examined children's moral reasoning with specific reference to adult interventions, across age and gender. Seventy-two children from the age groups 6-8 years and 10-12 years respectively were presented with two hypothetical vignettes pertaining to Piaget's justice framework of moral reasoning. Chi-square analysis and descriptive analysis…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Gender Differences, Moral Development, Parent Child Relationship
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Mouratidou, Katerina; Goutza, Stavroula; Chatzopoulos, Dimitrios – European Physical Education Review, 2007
Moral development is one of the goals of physical education (PE). However, few programmes have been implemented to investigate how moral development is promoted in PE settings. This study was designed in order to explore the effectiveness of a six-week specially designed moral development intervention in the PE domain in high school students, and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Physical Education, Teaching Styles
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Raaijmakers, Quinten A. W.; Engels, Rutger C. M. E.; Van Hoof, Anne – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2005
This article presents a longitudinal-sequential analysis of the developmental and reciprocal relationships between self-reported delinquency and moral reasoning (as measured with the Dutch version of the short form of the Defining Issues Test). Between 1991 and 1997 a large sample of 846 Dutch adolescents and young adults (15-23 years in 1991) was…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Young Adults, Value Judgment, Gender Differences