Tello, DanielPardo, Marisa MezaSalazar, Jaime Retamal2026-01-212026-01-212025-12-31Tello, D., Meza Pardo, M., & Retamal Salazar, J. (2025). Moral Competence of Teacher Education Students. The Role of Guided Reflection and Responsibility-Taking Opportunities. ETHICS IN PROGRESS, 16(2), 160–178. https://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2025.2.7https://hdl.handle.net/10593/28420Teacher education needs to focus on moral development and prepare their students to face the moral dilemmas in the teacher profession. The present study shows the first results of a long term research between 2017 and 2022 in 3 Chilean Universities. The relationship of learning environment, according to Responsibility Taking (RT) and Guided Reflection (GR) opportunities, on the differences on moral competence, was evaluated with a cross sectional design, comparing last with first year students (n=671). Results suggest a significant influence of RT and GR on moral competence. Being tutor at university is identified as one of those opportunities.enAttribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/moral developmentmoral competenceteacher educationresponsibility takingguided reflectioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2025.2.7