EXPLORING CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG ADULT MEN: Initial Findings From a Mixed Methods Evaluation of an All-Male, Character-Focused Trade School

Little research has investigated postsecondary institutions as a context for character development, despite theoretical suggestions about their potential significance. Accordingly, the authors initiated the Assessment of Character study, a mixed methods investigation of character development, among...

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Published inJournal of research on character education Vol. 10; no. 2; p. 129
Main Authors Johnson, Sara K, Hershberg, Rachel M, Arbeit, Miriam R, DeSouza, Lisette M, Callina, Kristina Schmid, Gutierrez, Akira S, Warren, Daniel J A, Harris, Elise M, Rubin, Rachel O, Lerner, Jacqueline V, Lerner, Richard M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Greenwich Information Age Publishing 01.07.2014
Subjects
Child development
Community colleges
Elementary Secondary Education
Moral Development
Moral education
Morality
Qualitative research
Students
Values Education
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Summary:Little research has investigated postsecondary institutions as a context for character development, despite theoretical suggestions about their potential significance. Accordingly, the authors initiated the Assessment of Character study, a mixed methods investigation of character development, among students at the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades (WS) and 3 comparison schools (CS). Analyses of initial data from 214 WS and CS students with a mean age of 18.76 years (60 of whom were also interviewed) indicated that WS students scored higher on several measures of character attributes and that the manifestation of character may differ across contexts. The authors discuss these findings in light of the continued importance of triangulations across quantitative and qualitative methods in subsequent waves of this research.
ISSN:1543-1223