There were three multiple-choice questions from each of the 16 lectures and, for ease of scoring, I considered for analysis student performance on only these items. Each item contained one correct and four incorrect choices, and all were conceptual or application types of questions. Though the actual questions for tests were taken from the instructor's manual that accompanied the text for the course, the following questions are my own examples of the sorts of questions that I used. The first is an application question. The second is a conceptual question:
In response to the Heinz dilemma, a child or adult says: "He should steal the drug because he needs his wife to cook for him, so he has to save her." This is an example of which stage of moral reasoning in Kohlberg's system?
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____ A. Stage 2
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(Individualism, Instrumental Purpose, Naive Hedonism)
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____ B. Stage 3
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(Good Boy, Nice Girl)
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____ C. Stage 4
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(Law and Order)
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____ D. Stage 5
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(Social Contract and Individual Rights)
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____ E. Stage 6
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(Universal Ethics)
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Piaget thought that which one of the following was critical for moral development?
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____ A.
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Parents who are authoritative.
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____ B.
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Models who are altruistic.
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____ C.
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Equal-status conflicts with peers.
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____ D.
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Rewards for good behavior, punishments for bad, consistently applied.
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____ E.
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A capacity for empathy.
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