An Experimental Study of Relationships Between Ethical Judgement and Ethical Conduct of Pre-School and Primary Children
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Date
1932-06
Authors
Burkett, Gladys R.
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University of Oregon
Abstract
This study of the relationship of age, intelligence, judgment and amount of schooling to conduct, was carried on with a threefold purpose. ( 1 ) to discover the relative importance of age, intelligence and amount of schooling as factors of ethical conduct. ( 2 ) to discover the relative importance of age, intelligence and amount of schooling as factors of ethical judgment. ( 3 ) to discover relationship between ethical conduct and ethical judgment of children four, 5, six and seven years of age, ranging from preschool to 2nd grade. Through the cooperation of Eugene schools, Condon, Edison and Francis Willard, first grades, and the kindergartens of Mrs. Jackson, Miss Thompson and Mrs. Birch, of Springfield, and parents of 14 children not attending school, 120 children were each given three tests; namely, an intelligence test, (Stanford-Revision of Binet) a judgment test, and a conduct test, during the winter and spring, 1931—32. The scores obtained from the 360 tests were used as a basis of the findings. Six tabulations of the results were made on the basis of chronological age, mental age, IQ, amount of schooling, judgment score and conduct score. Throughout the study the comparisons were drawn between the same factors that seemed to have a bearing on conduct. All other previous studies have been carried out in the field of pre-adolescent and older groups. None have dealt exclusively with the relationships of conduct and the preschool and primary levels.
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102 pages
Keywords
child-development, sociology, elementary education