People can use a variety of different strategies to perform tasks and these strategies all have two characteristics in common. First, they can be evaluated in comparison with either an absolute or a relative standard. Second, they can be used at varying levels of consistency. In the present article, the authors develop a general theory of task…

The Association for Values Education and Research (AVER) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers located at the University of British Columbia. Focuses on the competencies necessary for a morally educated person and the teaching/learning units that have been developed in order to expose students to values issues. (Editor/RK)

Responses of 127 rural high school sophomores and juniors were used to examine 3 factors influencing judgments and disciplinary decisions of adolescent peer juries. The factors were levels of moral reasoning, gender of offender, and severity of the offender's act. Subjects first responded to a questionnaire testing moral development. The 113…

The booklet discusses results of a values education survey of teachers and administrators and examines issues, curriculum, and teaching techniques in values education. The report is intended for use by pre- and inservice teachers and teacher educators as they develop awareness of values and devise strategies to transmit this awareness to students.…

The purpose of this study is to test the applicability of a cognitive concept elaboration procedure in clarifying value concepts as a means of evaluating a practical method and also of providing some empirical support for the theoretical construct. (Author)

Six value education methodologies for use on the secondary level are described and recommendations for implementing values/moral/civic education are presented. The first and second sections describe Lawrence Kohlberg's six-stage moral development approach to value education. The use of moral dilemma discussions to develop moral reasoning is…

In the context of the well-known fact that the higher stages of Kohlberg's sequence are less well-established than the lower, an exploratory investigation was carried out in a New Zealand teachers' college into the development of principled thinking in young adults and its association with various real-life experiences. (Editor)

Article considered the ethical ideals in children by investigating the child's description of the ideal person and also that of the wicked person. (Author/RK)

This article describes that part of the research related to the formation of moral values in a multi-racial group of students. (Author)

Author attempted to find out how the secondary (grammar) school system in one of the twelve States of the Nigerian Federation is coping with the problem of socio-cultural change of which students' indiscipline is but one manifestation. (Author/RK)

The basic objective of the current study was to investigate systematically the moral reasoning of adolescents and their mothers in delinquent and nondelinquent families using Kohlberg's structured moral dilemmas. (Author/RK)

Study hypothesized that lower class school children would be less cognitively complex and consequently show less advanced moral judgment than would middle class children. (Authors/CB)

Methods and results are described of a study to determine if elementary classroom teachers in Colorado (1) have knowledge of the valuing education process; (2) have a preference for teaching values as opposed to values clarification, other valuing processes, or moral reasoning; and (3) can define the terms values and valuing. Ninety-two teachers…

Attempts a validation of theoretical constructs related to a hypothesized conflict between achievement motives and the development of principled moral reasoning and exemplifies a novel, methodological approach to the assessment of moral judgment as well as other content areas in which "attitudinal conflict" is present. (Author/RK)

Findings of this experiment demonstrate the interdependence of reasoning and action in the development of morality. (Authors)