Interesting that people are talking about the benefits of various forms of assessment. If this were an academic exercise, you’d want to test each instrument for internal and external validity. But this isn’t an academic exercise.
@phillis I agree that doing more qualitative study of answers to these topics would be interesting. To some degree that it what happens here at fluther.
But what I think this generates is a set of ethical questions that one could rework and ask at fluther. There are many choices we can make, and it is more interesting to look at the nuanced ones, if you look at them singly.
When doing Likert scale questions, you often ask the same question in a number of different ways to see how consistent a person is. It also doesn’t matter whether you ask what you think is an obvious question, because the results would be scored in the aggregate, not just on single questions.
What instrument you use depends on your purpose in using it. An assessment instrument leads to something different than a game with discussion (essentially a focus group) leads to something different than an interview with a respondent.
I don’t know if the topics in the ethical questions tell us anything, or if there is a way of categorizing the kinds of questions or the kinds of moral dilemmas they raise. I don’t know if there are distinct ways of thinking about ethics. I do know that some of the questions, if not all of them, would be interesting to pose as fluther questions, in case any of you are interested. Otherwise, I may mine this question when I’m feeling a bit uninspired.