The effectiveness of moral action training based on the blasi’s theory on responsibility and civic-educational behavior in students

Abstract

Background: Responsibility and observance of civic-educational behavior play a decisive role in promoting the organizational status of educational systems. Despite the importance of this issue, there are several weaknesses can be observed in this area. Therefore, it is necessary to train a committed, moral and self-sacrificing students. Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of moral action training based on the Blasi's theory on responsibility and civic-educational behavior in students. Methods: The research design was quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with control group and with 1 month follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all students of Al-Mustafa University in Qom in the academic year 2019-2020 in the number of 12008 people from among whom 30 students were selected using convenient sampling method and then randomly were assigned to experiment (15 individuals) and control (15 individuals) groups. The moral action educational package based on the Blasi's theory (1993) was implemented for the experiment group. The duration of this training program was 13 sessions of 90 minutes and the training time was 5 weeks as a group. The California Goff, McGuskey & Mahl (1952) responsibility questionnaire and the Golparvar's civic-educational behavior questionnaire (2010) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test using spss24 software. Results: Findings showed that for both variables of responsibility and civic-eucational behavior, group effect, time effect and time×group interaction were significant. On the other hand, the results of Bonferroni post hoc test showed the persistence of the effect of educational intervention in the follow-up stage. Conclusion:According to the research findings, it can be concluded that if students are exposed to teaching moral action based on the Blasi's theory, their level of responsibility and educationcitizenship behaviors will increase.