ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the new methods of assessing competence in moral judgment. The best way to determine the differences between the Kohlbergian interview method and the tests of moral judgment competence described is to examine the operations involved in interviewing and evaluating. They involve systematically varied testing of moral judgment behavior and are standardized to a great extent in the way they are conducted and evaluated. Regarding moral judgment, there are two kinds of test procedures, which vary according to the method's design and the strategy involved in evaluation: classical tests of moral attitudes, and new structural tests for both affective and cognitive aspects of moral judgment behavior. The construction of tests to measure competence in moral judgment presents four problems: systematics of test design, selection and construction of moral dilemmas, selection and construction of moral arguments and answers, and computation and interpretation of various indices from the individual's pattern of judgment behavior.
