![]() ![]() Defining and measuring ego development-We focus in on Loevinger’s concept of ego development and its measurement through the WUSCT (as one way to measure wisdom skill).horizontal growth? What are levels of development? What causes or supports development? What are some caveats and concerns one needs to keep in mind when using developmental theories? An introduction to wisdom skills and adult development-What is meant by the development of meaning-making or ego development? What are wisdom skills? Why are wisdom skills important? What is wisdom and how does it relate to meaning making? In developmental theory, what is vertical vs.Background Context and Preface-What is the larger context for this article?.Overview and Summary-What are the themes covered in the article?.The topics covered and questions addressed include: The current purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth look into background literature underlying the validity of STAGES. The original purpose was to provide background information for a related project-the author is developing an automated assessment tool for scoring the types of sentence completion tests (SCT) described in the article (information at ). The STAGES model is relatively new and questions naturally arise regarding its validity and how it relates to other models. STAGES is a new model of human development, created by Terri O’Fallon, that proposes an underlying system of factors driving the ego development and leadership maturity frameworks created by Jane Loevinger and modified by Suzanne Cook-Greuter and Bill Torbert. ![]() Finally we give an overview of the STAGES model. For those familiar with the SCT, it provides (1) an overview of literature supporting its validity and properties and (2) a deeper exploration of the meaning of meaning-making development. For those new to the field, it provides an overview of theories of meaning-making development (also called ego development or leadership maturity-and which we call “wisdom skills”) as measured by the sentence completion test (SCT). Its sections are relatively independent and readers with prior knowledge should be able to skip to and read each independently, or in any order. It probably refers to the fact that water (of a river) flows constantly towards the sea and is not still, indicating that the water that has already flowed under the bridge will not return.This article began as a series of short white papers providing various types of background information about STAGES and its predecessors. The phrase originated around the early 1900s.
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