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- Title
Measuring moral judgement and the implications of cooperative education and rule-based learning.
- Authors
Dellaportas, Steven; Cooper, Barry J.; Leung, Philomena
- Abstract
The Defining Issues Test (DIT), developed by Rest (1986) , measures a person's level of moral development using hypothetical social dilemmas. Although the DIT is useful for measuring moral development in social settings, it might not adequately capture an individual's moral judgement abilities in solving work-related problems ( Weber, 1990 ; Trevino, 1992 ; Welton et al., 1994 ). In the present study, the moral judgement levels of 97 accounting students were measured over a 1 year period using two separate test instruments, the DIT and a context-specific instrument developed by Welton et al. (1994) . The test scores are significantly higher on the DIT than the Welton instrument (between the instruments and over time), suggesting that accounting students use higher levels of moral reasoning in resolving hypothetical social dilemmas and lower levels of moral reasoning in resolving context-specific dilemmas. The difference in test scores was highest during cooperative education (work placement programme), implying that the environment is a significant determinant on students’ test scores.
- Subjects
MORAL development; JUDGMENT (Logic); CRITICAL thinking; COGNITIVE development; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; ACCOUNTING education; COGNITIVE analysis; PSYCHOLOGY of learning; COOPERATIVE education
- Publication
Accounting & Finance, 2006, Vol 46, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0810-5391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-629X.2006.00161.x