Examination of relationship between Defining Issues Test (DIT) and Moral Judgment Test (MJT)
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to compare James R. Rest’s Defining Issues Test and Georg Lind’s Moral Judgment Test in terms of theory and practice. It is known that both of them are most widely used tests to measure moral judgment throughout the world. With this aim, in this article, firstly both scientists’ theories and own studies on tests are handled theoretically. Then some academic studies of these tests applied in Turkey are mentioned. Finally, findings and comments of this research related to DIT and MJT are revealed.
Both tests were performed on a group of 251 students in studying various programs of Artvin Çoruh and Ondokuz Mayıs universities in 2012-2013 academic year. In research process, relational scanning model was used, and in data analysis SPSS 16.0 statistical program was applied. To determine the correlation between DIT and MJT tests, Pearson moments correlation test was used. In order to see relationship between both tests and independent variables benefited from t-test and ANOVA.
As a result, it was revealed that the main theoretical difference between both tests is DIT’s step priority and MJT’s step consistency. Besides, it was also concluded that tests are structurally different from each other.
The results of data analysis demonstrated that there was no significant relationship (r= -0,02) between P-Point of DIT scale and C-point of MJT scale; between students’ moral judgment points and gender variant there was significant difference in DIT, but in contrast to this, no difference in MJT test; terms of university and department of education variant, there was no significant change in DIT, but on contrary, there is a significant difference in MJT test. Finally, between moral judgment points and students grade level no significant differences found in both tests.
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Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Mevlüt Kaya
ONDOKUZ MAYIS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLAHİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Türkiye
Semra Çinemre
KARADENİZ TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLAHİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Türkiye
Osman Taşkın
This is me
ARTVİN ÇORUH ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLAHİYAT FAKÜLTESİ
Türkiye
Şenay Yazgan
This is me
ONDOKUZ MAYIS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ
Türkiye
Publication Date
September 19, 2017
Submission Date
April 21, 2017
Acceptance Date
July 31, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Number: 42