To date, no study had analyzed how principals’ levels of moral reasoning and decision-making compared across years of experience in the principalship. This study set out to do so. Further, studies had not compared moral reasoning and decision-making along the continuum of the principalship track (i.e., from master’s student, to assistant principal, to principal). This study also set out to make those comparisons.
Generally, this study’s samples of principals, assistant principals, and master’s students in educational leadership represent the populations for the first and second research questions of this study. These same principals with zero to two years of experience, with three to five years of experience, with six to eight years of experience, and with at least nine years of experience represent the populations compared in the third research question.