Stages of Moral Judgment Development: Applying Item Response Theory to Defining Issues Test Data

Autor/inn/en	van den Enden, Thijs; Boom, Jan; Brugman, Daniel; Thoma, Stephen
Titel	Stages of Moral Judgment Development: Applying Item Response Theory to Defining Issues Test Data
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 48 (2019) 4, S.423-438 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (van den Enden, Thijs) ORCID (Boom, Jan) ORCID (Brugman, Daniel) ORCID (Thoma, Stephen)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
DOI	10.1080/03057240.2018.1540973
Schlagwörter	Measures (Individuals); Moral Development; Moral Values; Item Response Theory; Decision Making; Ethics; Universities; Scores; Alabama; Defining Issues Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messdaten; Moralische Entwicklung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Item-Response-Theorie; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ethik; University; Universität
Abstract	The Defining Issues Test (DIT) has been the dominant measure of moral development. The DIT has its roots in Kohlberg's original stage theory of moral judgment development and asks respondents to rank a set of stage typed statements in order of importance on six stories. However, the question to what extent the DIT-data match the underlying stage model was never addressed with a statistical model. Therefore, we applied item response theory (IRT) to a large data set (55,319 cases). We found that the "ordering" of the stages as extracted from the raw data fitted the ordering in the underlying stage model good. Furthermore, "difficulty" differences of stages across the stories were found and their magnitude and location were visualized. These findings are compatible with the notion of one latent moral developmental dimension and lend support to the hundreds of studies that have used the DIT-1 and by implication support the renewed DIT-2. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01