Abstract
In a previous study the authors used the Six Factor Personality Questionnaire (SFPQ) to uncover putative personality differences between elementary and secondary preservice teachers. The key result of the study was that no significant differences between the two groups of preservice teachers were identified. For the present study the authors examined another psychological construct, moral intuition. Preservice elementary and secondary teachers completed the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ), which is designed to uncover the moral intuitions or heuristics that people use to resolve moral dilemmas. Analysis of the responses revealed statistically significant differences in the moral intuitions of preservice elementary and secondary teachers.
Recommended Citation
Hitt, Austin M. and Costner, Richard H.
(2018)
"Are teachers really different? The moral intuitions of elementary and secondary preservice teachers,"
Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina: Vol. 11:
No.
2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/tejsc/vol11/iss2/2