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Peer reviewedDerr, Alice M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1986
Twenty-five learning disabled adolescents were administered Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview. Compared to the average achieving adolescents, LD Ss showed less evidence of ability to view moral dilemmas from a community or societal perspective. LD Ss also exhibited a substantial amount of reasoning from an egocentric perspective focusing on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Evaluative Thinking, Learning Disabilities, Moral Development
Download full textLangford, Peter E. – 1996
Failure to separate judicial reasoning (the application of rules) from legislative reasoning (the justification of rules) in earlier studies is claimed to invalidate most previous developmental research using moral dilemma interviews. Two studies used a novel method of scoring moral dilemma interviews that separates judicial from legislative…
Descriptors: Children, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking
