Challenges to Apprenticeship Learning in Religious Education: Narrow Use of the Apprenticeship Model and Current Developments in Youth Ministry

In 2012, I proposed the apprenticeship model as a promising catechetical model for church communities in which catechists might be hope generators, and the church community becomes a community of hope. This article argues that the original meaning of the apprenticeship model is challenged by an emphasis in youth ministry practices on the individual relationship between youth ministers and youngsters and on finding individual forms of religious sense in life in favor of the ideal to acculturate a new generation in faith communities. The article discusses the implications for religious education practices that teach young people to learn to hope.     

Non-response in student surveys: The Role of Demographics,Engagement and Personality

What causes a student to participate in a survey? This paper looks at participation across multiple surveys to understand survey non-response; by using multiple surveys we minimize the impact of survey salience. Students at a selective liberal arts college were administered four different surveys throughout the 2002–2003 academic year, and we use the number of surveys participated in to understand how student characteristics such as demographics, engagement and Holland personality type affect cooperation. We find that survey respondents are more likely to be female and socially engaged, less likely to be on financial aid, more likely to be an investigative personality type and less likely to be an enterprising personality type.     

Effects of relating mathematics to science instruction on the acquisition of quantitative science behaviors

Does it make sense to include mathematics instruction in science classes? Is there empirical support for Gagne's task analysis?     

New Method for the Calculation of Stable Phase Diagrams

Computercalculationofphasediagramsbeganmorethan30yearsago.Aclearanddetailedreviewoftheearlyworksl'-'lwascontributedbyAnewton-Raphsoniterationtechniqueandthesimplexmethod,andpointedoutthatthemathematicaldeductionsofthelatterarelesscomplicated.Manynsaral'I.…     

高校学科建设自我监测体系研究

从国家要求、国际趋势、内生需求等方面论证构建学科建设自我监测体系的必要性,研究学科建设自我监测体系构建的内涵和方法,并提出动态监测、制度保障、多方参与、主客结合、外部协同、激励反馈等构建监测体系的六大要素。最后提出实施学科自我监测的五项基本程序,即制定监测方案、确定监测内容、获取监测数据、统计分析诊断、结果使用反馈,供有关高校参考。     

How textbooks are neutered

This essay was originally presented as part of the panel “What Can the Colleges Do for the Schools?” at “Strategies for the Nineties,” the second national conference of the National Association of Scholars, held June 8–10, 1990.