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This workshop addresses two forms of measurement of moral developmental and a framework for evaluating specific interventions. The Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System (HCSS) is applied to the construction of instruments with consent of the user’s preference and to the scoring of narratives. Scoring a narrative includes determining the steps between any two of the 14 known stages. The Model of Hierarchical Complexity provides a framework for scoring reasoning stages in any domain as well as in any cultural setting. In the adult population. This scoring is applied to not only to scoring narratives, but also of instruments. Instruments consist of five vignettes, each one representing one of the stages from order 8 to 12 (concrete, abstract, formal, systematic, and metasystematic). However, they can be constructed for lower stages as well. The scoring is based not upon the content or the subject material, but instead on the mathematical complexity of hierarchical organization of information. The participant's performance on a task of a given complexity represents the stage of developmental complexity. Also examined are how we resolve difficulties in discerning these stages, and transitions and how they can be scored with reliability and validity. Finally, we present Rasch analysis, which is a method of changing ratings of items into Rasch Scaled Scores both for the items and for the participants. The results allow for a test of relationship between obtained scaled scores and the underlying hierarchical complexity of the items. Usually the r>. 9. The Rasch scores also allow for and examination of the coherence of responses instruments. Those …