Build a scale to measure the moral reasoning of students at the preparatory stage in Baghdad

Abstract

    The moral aspect is an important one in the structure of personality , and the lack of moral aspect is responsible for what we suffering today from problems . there is no exaggeration to say that many of our current problems are moral problems , and reflects the lack of moral growth.                            

 The goal of research is to build scale in order to detect the level of moral reasoning among junior high school students in Baghdad , The researcher followed the procedures in the construction of scientific standards in order to measure the characteristics that characterized the scientific standards of objectivity and honesty and consistency, and according to the theory growth Lawrence Kohlberg in moral reasoning.                                                           

   And the scale of five positions or stories, two of which are derived from the scale Kohlberg to think about the ethical , And the position of a story or a problem where the offer is followed by a number of questions following each question six responses to the stages represent the six thinking moral when Kohlberg , are displayed at random and students are asked to mark (√) in front of the response most closely with their thinking and their judgments defects. Thus, the scale of the five positions and (19) a question or a paragraph and (14) or an alternative answer.