Table 5.
Instructional Content
| Sample Weighted |
Variance due to Sampling Error (%) |
95% CI | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| k | N | Md | SD | L | U | χ 2 | Nfs | ||
| Overarching Instructional Objective | |||||||||
| Moral Development | 4 | 619 | .17 | .28 | 25 | –.38 | .73 | 16.18 | -- |
| Ethical Sensitivity | 7 | 780 | .42 | .11 | 74 | .19 | .64 | 9.48 | 8 |
| Decision Making/Problem-Solving | 9 | 1234 | .52 | .15 | 59 | .23 | .81 | 15.31 | 14 |
| Overarching Instructional Approach | |||||||||
| Social-Interactional | 6 | 938 | .37 | .22 | 35 | –.06 | .80 | 16.92 | 5 |
| Cognitive | 12 | 1366 | .44 | .22 | 43 | .01 | .87 | 28.06 | 14 |
| Type of Skills Instructed | |||||||||
| Domain-Specific | 15 | 2257 | .35 | .27 | 27 | –.18 | .89 | 55.97 | 11 |
| Global | 9 | 744 | .64 | .11 | 81 | .43 | .86 | 11.12 | 20 |
| Ethical Domains Coverage | |||||||||
| No | 4 | 460 | –.11 | .14 | 66 | –.38 | .15 | 6.06 | -- |
| Yes | 16 | 2014 | .48 | .14 | 62 | .20 | .76 | 26.00 | 22 |
| Ethical Behaviors Taxonomy | |||||||||
| No | 6 | 579 | .03 | .00 | 100 | .03 | .03 | 5.07 | -- |
| Yes | 12 | 1829 | .51 | .15 | 55 | .21 | .80 | 21.75 | 19 |
| Ethical Standards Coverage | |||||||||
| No | 6 | 1192 | .20 | .25 | 24 | –.29 | .71 | 24.98 | -- |
| Yes | 14 | 1282 | .52 | .19 | 57 | .16 | .88 | 24.38 | 22 |
| Problems in EDM Coverage | |||||||||
| No | 10 | 1845 | .33 | .17 | 43 | .00 | .67 | 23.33 | 7 |
| Yes | 9 | 575 | .57 | .30 | 43 | –.01 | 1.16 | 20.91 | 17 |
| Strategies for EDM Coverage | |||||||||
| No | 7 | 1229 | .22 | .25 | 27 | –.27 | .71 | 25.93 | 1 |
| Yes | 13 | 1245 | .52 | .20 | 53 | .13 | .90 | 24.20 | 21 |
Note. k = number of effect sizes; N = Total sample; M d = Sample weighted mean effect size d corrected for measurement error; SD = Standard deviation of mean effect size; CI = Confidence interval; L = Lower; U = Upper; Nfs = Orwin’s (1983) Fail safe N (number of null effects to reduce M d below .20); EDM = ethical decision-making; -- = effect size already below .20.