Developed as part of the British Ability Scales for ages 2-17, the Social Reasoning Scale was initially based on Kohlberg's invariant moral development stages, although substantial modifications were later introduced. In its standardization, an age progression was noted. Administration procedures, scoring criteria, and an illustrative example are…

This paper describes the rationale for the Defining Issues Test (DIT), an objective test of moral judgment which attempts to improve upon three aspects of Kohlberg's research: data collection, categorization of moral judgments (the scoring system), and method of indexing a subject's progress in a developmental sequence. In each case, the way in…