The Ability of Elementary School Teachers to Stage Score Moral Thought Statements

Napier, John D.

doi:10.1080/00933104.1976.10505989

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“…The Preconventional level contains Stage 1 (Punishment and obedience orientation) and Stage 2 (Instrumental relativist orientation). Unfortunately, a previous study (Napier, 1976) indicated that a group of teachers could not correctly stage score more than one-third of the moral thought statements given. The Postconventional is the final level which consists of Stage 5 (Social-contract legalistic orientation) and Stage 6 (Universal ethical principle orientation).…”

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“…The reliability and validity of the test instrument used to determine stage scoring ability has been adequately discussed previously (Napier, 1976). The important characteristic of the instrument was that the 24 items on the instrument had four similar kinds of contents within each of the six stages measured on the instrument (see Table 1).…”

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Content Influence While Stage Scoring Moral Thought Statements

Napier¹

1977

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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Two types of test scores were analyzed to examine whether sixty teachers were unable to use Kohlberg's measurement system for determining stages of moral thought because they were stage scoring invalidly on the basis of content. The first type of score represented "intuitive" stage scoring by teachers after they had been exposed to Kohlberg's theory of and program for moral development and while they were using a description of moral stages. The second type of score represented the correct stage scoring of moral thought statements by teachers while they were using a published self-training rater manual. Visual and statistical analyses of the two types of test scores led to the conclusion that the teachers were invalidly stage scoring on the basis of content while "intuitively" stage scoring and also while using the published self-training rater manual.

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Section: University Of Georgiamentioning

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Content Influence While Stage Scoring Moral Thought Statements

Napier¹

1977

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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“…A Study of 67 elementary school teachers (Napier, 1974) tested their ability to assess the moral thoughts of school aged children. In a pretest, posttest comparison with an intervening variable of exposure to a self-training rater manual based on Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental approach to moral education, the subjects showed no significant change in the ability to evaluate moral statements.…”

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