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The Impact of Diversity Courses on College Students' Moral Development
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Parker, Eugene T., III; Barnhardt, Cassie L.; Pascarella, Ernest T.; McCowin, Jarvis A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
We utilized data from a multi-institutional longitudinal study to investigate the association between diversity-related coursework and moral development among students over 4 years of college. Our findings parallel the prior research, which support the positive effects of diversity on college students, by offering new evidence that diversity…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Multicultural Education, Longitudinal Studies, Learning Experience
Is More Always Better? The Curvilinear Relationships between College Student Experiences and Outcomes
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Trolian, Teniell L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
Many higher education studies have examined linear relationships between student experiences and outcomes, but this assumption may be questionable. In two notable examples previous research that assumed a linear relationship reached different substantive conclusions and implications than did research that explored non-linear associations among the…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Outcomes of Education, Longitudinal Studies, Correlation
Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Decision Making in Educational Leaders
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Harati, Lina Wagih – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Leadership is a multifaceted skill as it requires the alignment of body, spirit and mind (Brown & Moshavi, 2005). Furthermore, it is a combination of behavior, actions and interaction between leaders and followers. It is characterized by the leaders' decisions' ability to influence followers' performance and achievement through their…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Decision Making, Ethics, Statistical Analysis
Lessons from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; Blaich, Charles – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
Funded by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts (CILA) at Wabash College, the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS) is a multi-institution, multi-year, longitudinal study designed to identify the academic and non-academic collegiate experiences that foster liberal learning. This article describes how the study was done and…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Liberal Arts, Student Evaluation
The Relationship between Intensity of Involvement and Community Service Engagement in the Moral Development of Student Members of Greek Organizations
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Phillips, Franklin Hadley, III – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many students will choose to join a fraternity or sorority in college, yet much is still unknown about how these organizations impact student moral development. Using a correlational research design, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the intensity of involvement of undergraduate students in social Greek…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sororities, Moral Development, Multiple Regression Analysis
Empathy, Perspective Taking and Personal Values as Predictors of Moral Schemas
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Myyrya, Liisa; Juujarvi, Soile; Pesso, Kaija – Journal of Moral Education, 2010
The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships between empathy variables, personal values and moral reasoning. The impact of empathic concern, perspective taking and personal values measured by the Portrait Value Questionnaire on moral schemas measured by the Defining Issues Test was investigated among 599 students from a university of…
Descriptors: Interests, Perspective Taking, Norms, Moral Values