in the standard psychological journal literature for 1970 through 1999, nearly 800 investigations bearing on Kohlberg ‘s theory have appeared, with the greatest portion of the research spread rather evenly over the first twenty years of the thirty-year period. Thus his work has been a source of continuing interest among researchers and educators, whose investigations in many cases have served to support and extend Kohlberg ‘ s basic model
I have ranked the model high on novelty , in recognition of the great stir the theory has caused in the field of moral development. few, if any, other proposals about how young people’s style of moral reasoning evolve have drawn so much attention.