{"title":"Applying variable- and person-centered approaches in the study of higher education learning outcomes","authors":"Ella Anghel, Henry I. Braun, Audry A. Friedman","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2252615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2252615","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMany believe that higher education contributes to students’ joint cognitive and non-cognitive development. However, relevant empirical evidence of that is scarce. Employing a sample of 348 college students, the present study explored the relationships among a range of outcomes using both a variable- and a person-centered approach. We found that a sense of purpose, strength of principles, and moral agency were positively associated. However, cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes were only weakly correlated. We also found that most students had either high or low scores in all of the measured outcomes, but some had non-uniform profiles. These results suggest that colleges should not assume that cognitive and non-cognitive developments are strongly related. College students likely need differentiated instruction and support, depending on their individual backgrounds, interests, and levels of the target constructs.KEYWORDS: Higher educationmoral judgment developmentcognitive developmentlatent profile analysis AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank Andres Castro Samayoa, Chris Constas, Kerry Cronin, Gabrielle Thome, and the instructors of the Perspectives program at Boston College for their assistance with data collection.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementData will be made readily available upon request for research purposes.Notes1. One group of students from which data were collected was not asked to provide age, see below.2. The EHD students’ CT scores were also reported elsewhere (Anghel et al., Citation2021).Additional informationFundingFunding was provided by an Ignite grant through Boston College.Notes on contributorsElla AnghelElla Anghel recently earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College. Her current research focuses on technology-enhanced assessment and learning.Henry I. BraunHenry I. Braun is the Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy at Boston College. He specializes in testing and education policy; assessment design and analysis; and higher education outcomes. He has won awards from the AERA, NCME, is a fellow of both the ASA and AERA, and an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.Audry A. FriedmanAudry A. Friedman is a retired Associate Professor of Teaching, Curriculum, and Society at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. Currently she is a researcher, instructor, and supervisor for the Urban Catholic Teacher Corps at Boston College. Her research addresses moral-cognitive decision-making and critical reasoning and formative experiences that nurture the development of critical reasoning, meaning, and purpose in young adults.","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135061071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential benefits of employing large language models in research in moral education and development","authors":"Han, Hyemin","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2250570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2250570","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, computer scientists have developed large language models (LLMs) by training prediction models with large-scale language corpora and human reinforcements. The LLMs have become one promising way to implement artificial intelligence with accuracy in various fields. Interestingly, recent LLMs possess emergent functional features that emulate sophisticated human cognition, especially in-context learning and the chain of thought, which were unavailable in previous prediction models. In this paper, I will examine how LLMs might contribute to moral education and development research. To achieve this goal, I will review the most recently published conference papers and ArXiv preprints to overview the novel functional features implemented in LLMs. I also intend to conduct brief experiments with ChatGPT to investigate how LLMs behave while addressing ethical dilemmas and external feedback. The results suggest that LLMs might be capable of solving dilemmas based on reasoning and revising their reasoning process with external input. Furthermore, a preliminary experimental result from the moral exemplar test may demonstrate that exemplary stories can elicit moral elevation in LLMs as do they among human participants. I will discuss the potential implications of LLMs on research on moral education and development with the results.","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135353569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forgiveness and decision-making by victims of harm: Education for forgiveness as a dimension of moral education","authors":"Jarosław Horowski","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2244185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2244185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43095655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inspiring or annoying? A new measure of broadening and defensive self-regulatory responses to moral exemplars applied to two real-life scenarios of moral goodness","authors":"Antonio Fabio Bella","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2244186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2244186","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43463848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anette Mansikka-aho, Jan Varpanen, L. Lahikainen, Jani Pulkki
{"title":"Exploring the moral exemplarity of Greta Thunberg","authors":"Anette Mansikka-aho, Jan Varpanen, L. Lahikainen, Jani Pulkki","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2248404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2248404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44856290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dana Cohen Lissman, Mary R. Adkins-Cartee, J. Rosiek, Shareen Springer
{"title":"Moral injury and moral traps in teaching: Learning from the pandemic","authors":"Dana Cohen Lissman, Mary R. Adkins-Cartee, J. Rosiek, Shareen Springer","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2237202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2237202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48846043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental images and imagination in moral education","authors":"Wojciech Kaftanski","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2236801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2236801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45309443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comprehension of character education and virtue education in Latvia: Analysis and synthesis of school actors’ views","authors":"I. Maslo, M. F. Fernández González, S. Surikova","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2236800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2236800","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45167932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deborah L. Schussler, Janiyah Davis, Sebrina L. Doyle Fosco, Kimberly M. Kohler
{"title":"Examining the ethics of school-based mindfulness programs","authors":"Deborah L. Schussler, Janiyah Davis, Sebrina L. Doyle Fosco, Kimberly M. Kohler","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2232121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2232121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45277443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social inclusion through synergy of kindness, forgiveness, and peaceableness: A conceptual proposition","authors":"Maithe Paula da Silva, A. A. Bachkirov","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2023.2236315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2023.2236315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42942710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}