Center for the Study of Ethical Development



   
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Muriel Bebeau, Executive Director

Steve Thoma, Research Director

Darcia Narvaez, Faculty Affiliate
http://www.nd.edu/~alfac/narvaez/

Tonia S. Bock
http://www.stthomas.edu/psy/faculty.htm .

Center for the Study of Ethical Development
206A Burton Hall
178 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA

Tel: 612-624-0876

CSED was founded and currently housed within the Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education & Human Development at the University of Minnesota.

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 SPSSā 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.



   


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