Can Character Be Measured?

Teachers as Role Models Teaching Character and Moral Virtues

“…Stoll and Beller (1998) emphasized, Moral reasoning does not promise behavioral change, but it does promise individual soul searching and refl ection on personal beliefs, values, and principles. Without this process, cognitive moral growth will not increase, behavior change will never occur, and the potential for consistent moral action becomes little more than a hit or miss proposition.…”

Practice Rooms and Practice Fields: Connections in Character Development

“…Sports ethicists Sharon K. Stoll and Jennifer M. Beller described moral development as the process of planting a seed that will hopefully grow into a capacity for moral judgment and foster the courage to act accordingly. 9 They defined morality as a specific system whereby individuals come to know the good and the right, and they described moral education as the deliberate and intentional activity of cultivating personal growth. In this context, moral education does not include teaching a predefined changes as athletes balance playfulness and seriousness.…”

High school boys' basketball and the social structure of suburban, rural, and urban high school communities : a comparative case study.

“…Moral education is said to be a lifelong endeavor which ultimately is rigorous, systematic, and important to the better understanding of society. In the end, moral education research even employs several of the methods favored by the opponents of the paradigm (Stoll & Beller, 1998). Through moral reasoning education, the researchers believe teachers and coaches can positively affect the learning process of participants in sport.…”

“…Particular attention has been focused on the potential role competitive sport involvement plays in the formation of children's competence perceptions within alternate achievement settings such as school, vocations, and interpersonal competence perceptions in these nonsport-related areas. Stoll and Beller (1998) published an article to discuss a debate involving moral educators and sport enthusiasts. The debate involved two basic premises: (a) morality cannot be defined empirically, and (b) moral reasoning (the foundation to character development) can be taught, examined and evaluated.…”

“…According to the researchers, research is the careful, systematic, and logical means to solve a problem (Stoll & Beller, 1998). A process to discover the truth is embedded in conducting research and the researchers provided a detailed account of quality research from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective.…”