Teaching and Learning by Analogy: Psychological Perspectives on the Parables of Jesus

Christian teachers are often encouraged to use Jesus’ teaching strategies as models for their own pedagogy. Jesus frequently utilized analogical comparisons, or parables, to help his learners understand elements of his Gospel message. Although teachers can use analogical models to facilitate comprehension, such models also can sow the seeds of confusion and misconception. Recent advances in cognitive psychology have provided new theoretical frameworks to help us understand how instructional analogies function in the teaching-learning process. The goal of this paper is to analyze Jesus’ analogical teaching from these psychological perspectives, with implications for all teachers who utilize instructional analogies. In addition to reviewing basic analogical learning processes, I explore a six-variable model to account systematically for potential analogical misconceptions

Selected Characteristics of Savings and Thrift Plans for Private Industry Workers

[Excerpt] This issue of Beyond the Numbers looks at the growth in the prevalence and at selected characteristics of employer-provided savings and thrift plans in private industry in the United States. The data for this article come from the National Compensation Survey: Health and Retirement Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2012. In some instances, comparisons of 2012 data are made to 2009 data, which came from National Compensation Survey: Health and Retirement Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2009

Meteoroid capture cell construction

A thin membrane covering the open side of a meteoroid capture cell causes an impacting meteoroid to disintegrate as it penetrates the membrane. The capture cell then contains and holds the meteoroid particles for later analysis

Dust particles from comets and asteroids collected at the Earth's orbit: Parent-daughter relationships

The relative contributions of comets and asteroids to the reservoir of dust in the interplanetary medium is not well known. There are direct observations of dust released from comets and there is evidence to associate the IRAS dust bands with possible collisions of Asteroids in the main belt. It is believed that one may combine lab analysis of the physics and chemistry of captured particles with orbital data in order to identify comet and asteroid parent bodies. It is possible to use the collected orbits of the dust to connect with its source in two ways. One is to consider the long time orbit evolution of the dust under Poynting-Robertson drag. The other is to look at the prompt orbit change of dust from comets onto trajectories that intersect the earth's orbit. In order to characterize the orbits of dust particles evolved over a long period of time, a study of its orbital evolution was undertaken. Various parameters associated with these dust orbits as they cross the Earth's orbit were considered in order to see if one may discriminate between particles evolved from comets and asteroids. The method was to calculate by a numerical procedure the orbits of dust particles after they left their parent bodies. It appears that as the particles pass the Earth's orbit, asteroidal grains and cometary grains can be differentiated on the basis of their measured orbital eccentricities even after much planetary perturbation. Broad parent daughter associations can be made on this basis from measurement of their trajectories intercepted in earth orbit

VARIABLE INTEREST RATES AND THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF DAIRY FARM BUSINESSES

Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Hyperbolic Geometry and Binocular Visual Space

Euclidean geometry is widely accepted as the model for our physical space; however, there is not a consistent model for our visual space. There is evidence that our eyes work to make pictures and images of the physical space using a hyperbolic model. In this paper we are going to explore hyperbolic geometry and hyperbolic models of binocular visual space. In hyperbolic geometry, all of the axioms of Euclidean geometry hold except the parallel postulate. The models of hyperbolic parallel lines explain how we perceive parallel lines as curved, such as how railroad tracks going off in the distance appear to converge. We will show that binocular visual space may indeed be best explained by a hyperbolic model

Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain.

Carme Font’s new book on seventeenth-century female prophets demonstrates how women were able to use prophetic writings as a catalyst for change, both personal and political. She examines prophecy as a literary genre of social transformation that empowered women, making them activists

Theology by Analogy: Psychological Frameworks for Analyzing the Parables ofJ esus

Messiah College faculty scholarship papers : submitted by faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for promotion to the rank of professo

Vaccine Hesitancy & Study of Attitudes and Barriers Towards the Influenza Vaccine in Public Health Students at Liberty University

Every year 2.5 million deaths worldwide are prevented because of vaccinations. Vaccine hesitancy is defined as delayed acceptance or refusal of vaccination and is a global threat to public health. Attitudes and barriers towards vaccines vary and change from group to group. Eighty-five percent of surveyed public health students at Liberty University did not receive the seasonal influenza vaccine. Their attitudes and barriers included: “I did not have time to receive a flu vaccination”, “I believe that as a result of the flu shot, I may actually get the flu”, and “I do not believe I am in danger of contracting the flu”. Interventions are aimed at increasing their vaccine uptake and their ability to educate future communities

Evangelical Visitor- February 15, 1900. Vol. XIII. No. 4.

Evangelical Visitor published in Abilene, Kansas, for the exposition of true, practical piety and devoted to the spread of evangelical truths and the unity of the church, by the Brethren in Christ Church on February 15, 1900. Vol. XIII. No. 4