Background info on the stages model
Read a detailed article about STAGES model, and its predecessors:
"Sentence completion assessments for ego development, meaning-making, and wisdom maturity, including STAGES." Published in Integral Leadership Review, August, 2017. (See the clickable TOC below, and note that this long article has "Appendix 1 — Summary of Conclusions in the Article.")More on the STAGES sentence completion assessment (developed by O'Fallon, an extension of the works of Cook-Greuter and Loevinger) from the Stages International web site.
TOC for
Sentence completion assessments for ego development, meaning-making, and wisdom maturity, including STAGES
Appeared in Integral Leadership Review, August 2017
Tom Murray
Open Way Solutions
tommurray.us@gmail.com
Table of Contents (clickable)
Background Context and Preface 5
An Introduction to Wisdom Skills and Adult Development 7
Why are wisdom skills important? 7
What is wisdom and how does it relate to meaning making? 8
Development: vertical vs. horizontal growth. 10
Levels or stages of development. 11
What causes or supports development? 13
Caveats and Concerns—overgeneralizations about development. 16
Defining and Measuring Ego Development 17
Ego development and the WUSCT. 18
On multiple intelligences and wide vs. narrow skills. 19
Cognitive vs. emotional skill—ego development includes both. 20
One skill to rule them all—is ego development one thing? 21
Cook-Greuter's study of Post-autonomous levels, and person-perspectives. 21
Internal Validity of the SCT 26
Inter-rater reliability of the WSUCT 27
Internal consistency of the WSUCT. 27
Test-retest reliability of the WSUCT. 28
Faking, guessing, and scaffolding the SCT. 29
Variations in the length of the SCT. 30
Internal validity of WUSCT derivatives: MAP, GLP, and LDP. 32
External Validity of the SCT 33
Construct Validity of the SCT. 34
Construct and predictive validity of derivatives: MAP, LDP, and GLP. 36
On comparing models and construct indeterminacy. 37
Priorities of the four dimensions. 42
Further Explanation of the Four Dimensions 44
STAGES vs. Prior Developmental Frameworks 48
STAGES vs. other SCT assessments. 48
STAGES, States, and cognitive/brain theories 52
STAGES vs. Complexity and Skill Theory 54
Validity Studies of the STAGES Model 57
Appendix 1 — Summary of Conclusions in the Article 63
Appendix 2 — Developmental Level Correspondences 67
Appendix 3 — Descriptions of Developmental Levels 69
1. Short Summaries of Developmental progressions 69
3. Loevinger’s Ego Development Levels 71
4. Cook-Greuter (2004, p. 7)—Some examples of how different action logics matter 72
5. Table 1 from McCauley et al. 2006: Comparison of three constructive-developmental frameworks 74
6. Description of the STAGES levels and person-perspectives (PP), adapted from Fitch, 2016. 74