MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND CORRUPTION: AN EVALUATION INSTRUMENT PROPOSAL/DESARROLLO MORAL Y CORRUPCION: PROPUESTA DE UN INSTRUMENTO DE EVALUACION

Corruption is one of the biggest problems that the Spanish society faces nowadays, hence the need to create tests and questionnaires that assess the degree of moral development among the population. Moral dilemmas are widely used in the context of many investigations and among different disciplines,...

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Published inMLS Educational Research Vol. 2; no. 1; p. 83
Main Authors Jacobs-Ardines, Christian, Santana-Vega, Lidia E, Feliciano-Garcia, Luis
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published MLS Journals S.L 01.01.2018
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Summary:Corruption is one of the biggest problems that the Spanish society faces nowadays, hence the need to create tests and questionnaires that assess the degree of moral development among the population. Moral dilemmas are widely used in the context of many investigations and among different disciplines, but concretely they are popular among the social sciences. Most of them have the aim to achieve measurements related to moral development or moral judgment and therefore they are very useful in order to predict future actions of the test-takers. Many of the negative phenomena that affect our social model are in connection with the moral decisions and dilemmas that individuals face. One of the biggest problems that we face today in our country has to do with political corruption, since in the political framework moral decisions and dilemmas take on a transcendental importance, impacting on the welfare of all citizens. The studies of Lawrence Kohlberg related to moral development, are the theoretical framework used to build those tests, being the Defining Issues Test of James Rest the most renowned, validated and adapted to different circumstances. The present paper will try to describe the background and content of a questionnaire, developed from the DIT, whose main goal is to study the moral development of law students in Spain and, in particular, the moral development related to political corruption. Key words: Moral values, moral development, evaluation, ethic education, political corruption. Uno de los problemas que mas preocupa a la sociedad espanola es la corrupcion; de ahi la necesidad de crear instrumentos que evaluen el grado de desarrollo moral de los sujetos. Los cuestionarios que incluyen dilemas morales se utilizan en investigaciones sobre el tema en diversas disciplinas de las ciencias sociales. El objetivo es medir el desarrollo moral o juicio sobre problemas morales para predecir una eventual conducta en una situacion futura. Muchos de los fenomenos negativos que afectan a nuestro modelo social estan en conexion con decisiones y dilemas morales a los que han de enfrentarse las personas. Uno de los mayores problemas de nuestro pais tiene que ver con el fenomeno de la corrupcion politica, ya que es en el marco politico donde las decisiones y dilemas morales cobran una importancia trascendental, repercutiendo en el bienestar de todos los ciudadanos. Los estudios de Lawrence Kohlberg siguen sirviendo como marco teorico para el diseno de instrumentos que evaluan el desarrollo moral. Entre estos instrumentos, el Defining Issues Test (DIT) de James Rest es uno de los mas utilizados, validados y adaptados a las circunstancias que las investigaciones requieran. El presente articulo describe los antecedentes y el contenido de un cuestionario disenado a partir del DIT para la investigacion sobre el desarrollo moral de los estudiantes del Grado de Derecho en Espana en relacion con el fenomeno de la corrupcion politica, y ofrece orientaciones sobre la elaboracion de este tipo de adaptaciones. Palabras clave: Valores, desarrollo moral, evaluacion, educacion etica, corrupcion politica.
ISSN:2603-5820
2603-5820
DOI:10.29314/mlser.v2i1.62