Study on Gender Differences in Reasoning

Study results indicate that most students (80%) responded at Level Two, Conventional Morality, Stage 4, Law and Order Orientation, this finding was significantly significant, compared to Level's One and Three, and there were no gender differences. For this study, descriptive statistics were used to show percentages and mean scores of students who responded at Kohlberg Level's One, Two, or Three stages of moral reasoning. Findings showed that most students (80%) responded at Level Two, Conventional Morality, Stage 4, Law and Order Orientation; mean score was 20. The remainder responded at Level One, Pre-conventional Morality, Stage 2, Instrumental Relativist Orientation (5%), and Level Three, Post-Conventional Morality, Stage 5, Social Contract Orientation (10%) and Stage 6, Universal Ethical Principle Orientation (5%); mean scores were 12.5, 15 and 12. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to determine the differences between genders on the different levels of responses. ANOVA compared the means of mal

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