Through my work in service-learning I am becoming more interested in using
a survey/instrument measuring moral development in the introductory ethics
and religion course I teach in the spring. Through some cursory searching,
I have found the Survey of Interpersonal Values (LV Gordon, 1976), the
Defining Issues Test (JR Rest 1987, based on Kohlberg)) and the Scale of
Intellectual Development (T.D. Erwin 1981, based on William Perry). In
research on service-learning courses, I have so far found little feminist
questioning of these instruments. So I am wondering--are any of them
acceptable from a gender/race/class perspective? Are there other
instruments that might be more acceptable? I suspect this might be of
general interest so please respond to the list.
Elizabeth M. Bounds 540-231-7617
Religious Studies Program elizabeth.bounds@vt.edu
Major Williams 204
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0135