This article reports on an investigation into the retention of secondary religious education teachers trained at one institution over a ten-year period. The initial hypothesis was that many of these teachers would no longer be teaching, or would no longer be teaching religious education. However, the authors found that a high percentage of…

The aim of the book is to serve for clinical, practical, basic and scholarly practices. In twentyfive chapters it covers the most important topics related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in the efficient way and aims to be useful for health professionals in training or clinicians seeking an update. Different people with autism can have very different…

In an ongoing longitudinal study that started in 1994, the moral development of business apprentices is being studied. The focal point of this project is a critical analysis of L. Kohlberg's thesis of homogeneity, according to which people should judge every moral issue from the point of view of their "modal" stage (the most frequently…

In this study, reasoning about moral responsibilities in friendships on the part of 97 subjects was assessed at the ages of 7, 9, 12, and 15 years. Assessment was undertaken of: (1) general reasoning about the moral obligation of promise keeping; (2) general reasoning about responsibilities in friendship; and (3) situation-specific reasoning about…

The underlying constructs for an experimental battery (EB) consisting of artistic judgment tests--the Design Judgment Test (DJT), the Visual Designs Test (VDT), Proportion Appraisal (PA), and the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test--were studied. Scores for 1,686 clients of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation's aptitude-testing service were…

This paper serves two purposes: (1) it outlines some of the conflicting characterizations of the differences among scientific and artistic approaches to qualitative research; and (2) it provides some illustrations from conceptual and empirical research to demonstrate that these are indeed differences that matter. The following four ways in which…

Like the language of any group in American society that struggles for an identity, the language or dialects used by women in higher education, must be studied, researched, and represented within the curriculum, notably within the literary curriculum. A group's behavior, and often its self-esteem, is expressed within the constraints of the group's…

Gilligan's theory, which identifies two distinct orientations of moral decision-making, care and justice, was extended in this study. Moral dilemmas were used to ascertain percentages of care-based responses versus justice-based responses in 40 men and 39 women. Based on previous research, it was predicted that by increasing the level of…

Assessed were children's uses of effort and intentionality cues in judgments of morality and disposition. Children of 4, 7, and 10 years were presented with one prediction and four judgment stories. Judgment stories factorially combined two levels of intentionality and two levels of effort. These stories described different actors and the same…

The relationship between a two-semester university-based legal clinic experience and the moral judgment of third-year law school student participants was investigated. A nonstandard form of the Kohlberg Moral Judgment Interview (MJI) was administered to 20 students at the beginning of the clinic and to the remaining 14 students near the completion…

A study was made of aspects of Italian children's moral behavior and moral reasoning in equity and non-equity situations. Subjects were male and female children of low socioeconomic status who were between the approximate ages of 8.5 and 10.5 years. Groups of four children were formed to include subjects of various sociometric status: one high,…

Children's increasing use of intentions and motives and decreasing use of outcomes to morally evaluate action are perhaps the most researched phenomena in moral cognition. However, relatively little is known about the acquisition of the ability to make moral evaluations and the processes involved. Based on the assumption that children's…

Explores the aesthetic underpinnings of the "postcards" included in each segment of the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." Discusses the postcards' somewhat limited but effective appeal over their 13-month lifespan and suggests that their very construction is probably indebted to the avant garde genre of film production. (JD)

Administered a test of moral judgment to a group of 30 graduate students with no previous counseling experience who were enrolled in an introductory counseling course. Found high moral development group was superior to a low moral development group in the demonstration of empathy on a counseling tape. (Author/ABL)

Students in grades 1, 2, and 5 ranked moral transgressions as more wrong than conventional transgressions and rated moral rules as more important than conventional rules. The distinction between morality and convention on criterion judgments was made more comprehensively by older than younger children. Justifications differed by domains at all…