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A History of Psychological Monism

What Works in Character Education (WWCE)

  • February 2005
  • Funded by John Templeton Foundation
  • Implemented by Character Education Project
  • Authors: Marvin Berkowitz & Melinda Bier
  • Review of existing literature on scientific efficacy
  • Identifies 33 effective programs based on 69 studies
  • Parses content and pedagogy in 11 elements
  • Measures results in risk behavior, pro-social competencies, school-based outcomes, and social-emotional functioning

What Works Clearinghouse: Character

CASEL Safe and Sound Report

  • 2005
  • Skill based, not Character Education
  • Assumes that skills are the basis of ethical decision making
  • Identifies 22 systematic, well-designed SEL programs
  • Children in strong SEL schools "are more likely to demonstrate good character and citizenship."
  • Not scholarly, but a "'consumer's report' guide to SEL programs."
  • Sept 2006 Report
  • Institute for Education Sciences (IES)
  • Identified 93 studies of 41 programs
  • Examined 18 studies of 13 programs (7 studies met evidence standards; 11 met standards with reservations)
  • Positive Action - had positive effects in behavior and academic achievement
  • Too Good for Drugs & Violence - positive effects on knowledge, attitudes and values
  • Too Good for Violence - had potentially positive effects on behavior, and on knowledge, attitudes and values
  • Six programs had potentially positive effects in one of 3 domains; five had no discernible effect on any domain.

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Handbook of Moral & Character Education

  • March 2008
  • ed. Larry Nucci and Darcia Narvaez
  • Chapters are Who's Who of scholars
  • Social Cognitive Theory - Larry Nucci
  • What Works in Character Ed - Marvin Berkowitz
  • Cognitive & Neurobiological Perspectives - Darcia Narvaez
  • The Just Community Approach - F. Clark Power
  • Moral Self-Identity - Daniel Lapsley
  • Caring and Moral Education - Nel Noddings

Social and Character Development Research Project

Character Strengths and Virtues:

A Handbook of Classification

  • October 2010
  • US Dept of Ed; CDC; Institute of Educational Sciences
  • Authors: Allen Ruby and Emily Doolittle, of IES
  • 7 research teams: Oregon State, NYU, SUNY Buffalo, U of Maryland, UNC Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, Children's Institute
  • sacdprojects.net is dead.
  • 485 page report
  • "In conclusion, the analysis of the year-by-year impacts did not yield evidence that the seven SACD programs, combined and individually, improved student social and character development."
  • April 2004
  • Martin Seligman & Christopher Peterson
  • Analog to DSM
  • Funded by Mayerson Foundation
  • Provides a 'classification' of the virtues, strengths and attendant 'situational themes'
  • Forms "the backbone of positive psychology" and VIA Institute
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