earticle

영어

In this research, we compared middle and high school science-gifted students with general students inmorality using DIT (Defining Issues Test) developed by Rest and translated by Moon, which is basedon Kohlberg’s moral development theory. First of all, P (%) score which means moral judgement wascompared. And then, the scores at each stage of morality development were compared and analyzed.Also, the tendency of moral development between middle and high school science-gifted students wasanalyzed. The results showed that P (%) score for the science-gifted students was significantly higherthan that for the general students. This result coincides with the view of cognitive development theorythat the more cognitively developed person shows higher development stage response. And science-gifted students' score of 5B stage in morality development was significantly higher than that of gen-eral students. Science-gifted students were more highly distributed at the upper level being classified byP (%) score in moral judgement test. But, by the crosstab analysis, it revealed that this distribution dif-ference was not statistically significant. There were no significant differences in moral judgement score,in score of each stage in morality development and in three classes' score distribution between middleand high school science-gifted students.