Life in the eucharistic community : an empirical study in psychological type theory and biblical hermeneutics reading John 6:5–15

This study employs psychological type theory to analyse the ways in which a group of 13 newly ordained Anglican priests (in priest’s orders for 3 or 4 months) reflected on the Eucharistic imagery of the Johannine feeding narrative. In the first exercise, the priests worked in two groups distinguished according to their perceiving preference (7 sensing types and 6 intuitive types). In the second exercise, the priests worked in three groups distinguished according to their judging preferences (4 thinking types, 4 feeling types, and 5 feeling types). The data supported the significance of psychological type in shaping the hermeneutical process (the theory underpinning the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching). Sensing types grappled with the plethora of detail within the text. Intuitive types looked for the bigger picture and identified major themes. Thinking types looked for and organised the major issues raised by the passage. Feeling types focused on the human and relational implications of the narrative

Assessment of applicability and transferability of evidence-based antenatal interventions to the Australian indigenous setting

There is a need for public health interventions to be based on the best available evidence. Unfortunately, well-conducted studies from settings similar to that in which an intervention is to be implemented are often not available. Therefore, health practitioners are forced to make judgements about proven effective interventions in one setting and their suitability to make a difference in their own setting. The framework of Wang et al. has been proposed to help with this process. This paper provides a case study on the application of the framework to a decision-making process regarding antenatal care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Queensland. This method involved undertaking a systematic search of the current available evidence, then conducting a second literature search to determine factors that may affect the applicability and transferability of these interventions into these communities. Finally, in consideration of these factors, clinical judgement decisions on the applicability and transferability of these interventions were made. This method identified several interventions or strategies for which there was evidence of improving antenatal care or outcomes. By using the framework, we concluded that several of these effective interventions would be feasible in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities within Queensland

Statistical considerations in a systematic review of proxy measures of clinical behaviour

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The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004-06

In this paper, we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project by investigating four potential sources of bias: sample representativeness, interviewer effects, response unreliability and sample attrition. We discuss the results of our analysis and implications of our findings for the collection of data in similar contexts.AIDS/HIV, data quality, interviewer effects, representativeness, response reliability, sample attrition, Sub-Saharan Africa

An empirical approach to Mark's account of discipleship : conversation between the Word of God and the People of God

This study invited the participants at a residential Diocesan Ministry Conference (N = 73) to function as a hermeneutical community engaging in a conversation between the Word of God and the People of God on the theme of discipleship. Building on the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics, the participants worked in groups structured according to dominant psychological type preferences: sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking. This process facilitated rich and varied insights into what God may be saying to the People of God about the place of discipleship within the contemporary church, grounded on the Word of God in scripture and, in this case, contextualised within one specific rural diocese

El proceso de autoevaluación y autoregulación de la Sede del Atlántico de la Universidad de Costa Rica: Una mirada a la opinión de sus participantes tres años después

El autoestudio y la autovaloración como estrategias evaluativas para los diferentes sistemas de educación superior han creado la necesidad de abrir espacios para la revisión y análisis de experiencias vividas; como es la que desarrolló la Sede del Atlántico, en 1996, como parte del Programa Cre-Columbus y patrocinado por la Vicerrectoría de Docencia. Este trabajo intenta hacer una revisión y análisis de las opiniones de los participantes del proceso de Autoevaluación y Autorregulación vivido en la Sede durante los años 1996-1997 y la implementación de los proyectos que se originaron como parte del Plan de Acción, generando así una serie de consideraciones importantes dentro de los procesos de evaluación en la educación superio