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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 LevelÆs 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 LevelÆs 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 male and female students from the group of 50 students who participated in the study; there were no significant results found for any level. One-way ANOVA was used to compare the differences between means for the different levels for the entire group. One-way ANOVA extends the t-test to include three or more samples when testing for the means (Witte, 1980). Level Two, Stage 4, was significant, with F = 7.896, significant at p = .008. Findings indicated that most students responded at KohlbergÆs Level Two, Stage 4, to a statistically significant degree, and this did not vary by gender.

The results of the study supported the hypothesis that there would be no significant differences due to gender, and the hypothesis that more students would score at KohlbergÆs Level Two reasoning level, compared to LevelÆs One and Three. The findings also answered the research questions regarding what level of moral reasoning students were lik...

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