Measuring Spiritual Transformation for the Purpose of Continuous Quality Improvement

Abstract

Christian colleges seek to form the spiritual lives of students through academic and co-curricular programming. These institutions need assessment measures that will assess student achievement of their spiritual outcomes and help improve their spiritual environment and programs. This study investigated the viability of the Furnishing the Soul Inventory (FSI) as an instrument for spiritual outcomes assessment by researching the FSI\u27s ability to detect differences in students\u27 spiritual maturity based upon mentoring, crisis, and cross-cultural mission trip experiences. The FSI was administered to 156 students at Taylor University, a small liberal arts college in the Midwest. The results of this study confirmed that mentoring and cross-cultural mission trip experiences positively impacted FSI results. Crisis did not significantly impact student scores. This study concluded that the FSI is a valid instrument for assessment and program improvement

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