Ideas for Research with the DIT

by James Rest and Darcia Narvaez

For:

• Students and advisers developing dissertation topics

• Researchers using the DIT

• Instructors teaching courses in research methods and morality

Contents

• Discusses 21 kinds of studies--basic research strategies, illustrative references, problems, remedies, and unanswered questions needing new research.
• Illustrates the graphs and statistical analysis possible with a statistical package like SPSSâ and the data diskette from the Scoring Service of Minnesota's Center for the study of Ethical Development
• Describes the concrete steps for imputing data from the Scoring Service files into a statistical package, replacing subjects who were purged, adding variables, handling missing data (includes sample files to illustrate procedures)
• Describes how to do an item analysis, providing programs and syntax files for conversion of item rates and ranks into SPSS files
• Illustrates how to use the U score as a moderator variable; how to divide your sample into Quartiles or Terciles; how to calculate internal reliability for your sample, devise group stage-profiles and individual-subject analysis-of-change
• Contains over 1,500 DIT references on floppy disk enabling electronic searches by topic or author

Cost for 60+ page booklet and 3-1/2" floppy disk is $20.
Order from the Center.