Increasing Ethical Sensitivity to Racial and Gender Intolerance in Schools: Development of the Racial Ethical Sensitivity Test

The Defining Issues Test and the Four Component Model: Contributions to professional education

“…See Rest et al (1986) and Bebeau (1994Bebeau ( , 2001 for summaries of the validation studies. The general strategies for ethical sensitivity assessment have been applied in other professional settings: counsellor education (Volker, 1984), computer users (Liebowitz, 1990, undergraduate education (Mentkowski & Loacker, 1985;McNeel, 1994), geriatric dentistry (Ernest, 1990), social work (Fleck-Henderson, 1994), journalism (Lind, 1997) and school personnel (Brabeck et al, 2000). An ethical sensitivity test places students in real-life situations, where they witness an Downloaded by [New York University] at 08:31 03 June 2015 interaction either on videotape or audiotape.…”

“…However, studies also show that ethical sensitivity can be improved with instruction (Mentkowski & Loacker, 1985;Bebeau & Brabeck, 1987;Leibowitz, 1990;Sirin et al, submitted). Further, studies show (Bebeau et al, 1985;Bebeau & Brabeck, 1987;Brabeck et al, 2000) that ethical sensitivity is distinct from the ability to reason (Rest's second component) about what ought to be done in the situation. Consequently, one cannot assume that education that focuses on ethical reasoning will in uence to the interpretive process.…”

Validation of a Measure of Ethical Sensitivity and Examination of the Effects of Previous Multicultural and Ethics Courses on Ethical Sensitivity

“…The REST-CD is a computerized version of the original REST (Brabeck et al, 2000). The original version, using an in-person interview, was designed to assess 224 SIRIN ET AL. participants' abilities to identify the ethical violations in the scenarios.…”

Öğretmenlerin Ahlaki Kararlara Aykırı Davranmaya Açıklık Düzeylerini Belirlemeye Yönelik Bir Ölçek Geliştirme Çalışması

“…Educational organizations are not exceptional (Rezaee, Elmore & Szendi, 2001;Brabeck, et al, 2000). This is not surprising, as the managers and the teachers face with many situations involving discipline, justice, evaluation, confidentiality and so on, where ethical consideration is inevitable for them (Gifford, 1992).…”