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What's New?
1. New Guide for DIT-2
This newly developed 70 page Guide for using the Defining Issues Test, Version 2 provides the usual summaries of validity and reliability data for the test, directions for using the Center for the Study of Ethical Development Scoring Service, guidelines for data interpretation, newly developed norms for the test, and an extensive and updated bibliography of DIT studies. The Guide is designed for two kinds of users: (a) researchers wanting a brief account (3 pages) on how to use DIT-2 and interpret the REPORT; (b) researchers who want more detail: how to customize the DIT-2, add dilemmas of their own design, and information on about 50 variables calculated from DIT data, including current experimental constructs.
2. New comprehensive book
Postconventional moral thinking:
A neo-Kohlbergian approach. Order from Erlbaum Publisher
Summarizes over 25 years of research, cites over 400 published
articles, integrates research on moral judgement with schema
theory, Domain theory, Cultural Psychology and contemporary
moral philosophy
3. New collaboration with other
researcher
The new "Guide for DIT-2" gives
details for custom designing the DIT, devising your own
dilemmas, and experimenting with various scores from the
DIT. Researchers outside the Minnesota Center will have
the most important verdict on the usefulness of DIT-2.
4. New constructs, approaches,
and variables
Besides moral judgement, we study
moral sensitivity (DEST). moral identity (PROI), "intermediate
concepts", the understanding of moral stories, views on
public policy issues (ATHRI), Utilizer scores, Orthodoxy/Progressivism,
and consolidation/transition.
5. DIT 2
DIT-2 is more updated, shorter, has clearer instructions, purges fewer subjects for bogus data, and is slightly more powerful on validity criteria. The new test (“DIT-2”) indicates that the old test (“DITl”) can be replicated. In sum, in terms of the construct validity of the DIT, there is no other construct that accounts as well for the combination of findings than the construct of moral judgment1 The persuasiveness of the validity for the DIT comes from the combination of criteria for construct validity that many researchers have found, not just from one finding with one criterion.
The complete DIT-2 consists of five dilemmas (each followed by 12 issue- statements); the complete DIT- 1 consists of six dilemmas.
The five dilemmas of DIT-2 are: (a) a father contemplates stealing food for his starving family from the warehouse of a rich man hoarding food; (b) a newspaper reporter must decide whether to report a damaging story about a political candidate; (c) a school board chair must decide whether to hold a contentious and dangerous open meeting; (d) a doctor must decide whether to give an overdose of pain-killer to a suffering but frail patient; (e) college students demonstrate against U.S. foreign policy.
The Center's Scoring Service supplies Instruction Booklets, Answer Sheets, and Guides for DIT-2 or DIT- 1. ( The short form of DIT- 1 is simply the first three stories. ) Answer sheets are then sent back to us for scoring. In turn, we supply a paper copy REPORT, and a disk with subject scores. DIT-2, DIT-1 Long Form, and DIT-1 Short Form are all the same price.
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