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Edmondson, Macey Lynd – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed methods study explored whether a relationship existed between moral development and dishonest academic behaviors in law students. The quantitative portion of the study utilized a survey adapted from James Rest's Defining Issues Test and Donald McCabe's Academic Integrity Survey. Law students were solicited by email from two public…
Descriptors: Ethics, Comparative Analysis, Moral Development, College Students
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Craig, Patricia J.; Oja, Sharon Nodie – Journal of Moral Education, 2013
This mixed-methods study explored the moral growth of undergraduates in a recreation management internship experience. The quantitative phase reported moral judgement gains in Personal Interest and Post-conventional schema, and N-2 scores, as measured by the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2), among 33 interns. The case-study method used a pattern…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Moral Development, Undergraduate Students, Moral Values
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Johnston, Marilyn – Journal of Moral Education, 1989
Describes teachers' understanding of individualized instruction by presenting data collected from interviews with seven elementary school instructors. Finds a positive relationship between teachers' understanding of individualized instruction and their moral development as measured by the Defining Issues Test. Provides a number of interpretations…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Ethical Instruction, Individualized Instruction
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Johnston, Marilyn; Lubomudrov, Carol – Elementary School Journal, 1987
Teachers with relatively high scores on the Defining Issues Test of moral development, contrasted with teachers with relatively low scores, had a more democratic view of teacher and student roles, and saw rules as protecting the rights of individual students as well as the group's rights. (NH)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Interviews