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Investigating How And Why Students Pay Attention And Engage In A High School German Level One Class, Lindsey Marie Nielson Aug 2023

Investigating How And Why Students Pay Attention And Engage In A High School German Level One Class, Lindsey Marie Nielson

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study investigates how and why students pay attention and engage in a German Level One class in a public high school in Utah. Data were collected from surveys, classroom observations, video/audio recordings, and interviews. Findings indicate that three major factors influenced student engagement during this study-type of motivation (extrinsic or intrinsic), type of learning activity (individual, partner, or class), and the mode of activity (technology, paper, or speaking). Additional findings offer support for the idea that metacognition may enhance language learning.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Preliminary Reports Aug 2023

Preliminary Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

This Issue's Offerings, Book Notices, Sweet Charity, and Regional Directors. Preliminary Reports are short notes or tentative papers, not yet ready for publication, but reflecting substantial research. They are made available to be critiqued and improved by others in the field or to facilitate further research.


Reprints Aug 2023

Reprints

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Reprint Series consists of papers previously published (or of publishable quality) that make a significant contribution to our understanding of antiquity, the scriptures, or other concepts related to Mormonism. Authors of papers in the Reprint Series retain copyright. See last page for order blank.


Project Updates Aug 2023

Project Updates

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Anton Transcript Studied, Nibleyana on a Grand Scale, Papers Received, and Projects in the Mill. As reported in the last newsletter, a group of scholars was invited to examine an extensive effort made to translate the Anthon Transcript, the recently discovered page of characters which Martin Harris took to New York City for Charles Anthon's examination in 1829. John Sorenson and Jack Welch integrated the individually-made evaluations and provided than to the translator.


Farms News Aug 2023

Farms News

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Our Readers Respond and New Members of the Team. FARMS director Jack Welch is jubilant over the enthusiastic response of readers. There is mail in the box every day: requests for information, welcomed contributions, expressions of support and gratitude. Over five hundred copies of different items from the Reprint Series and the Preliminary Reports had already been sent out by mid-October. "I estimate that there was a 20 percent response to the July Newsletter," says Jack, "and Howard Ruff thinks he's successful is he gets between a one and two percent response."


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Manager's Report Aug 2023

Manager's Report

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The first Newsletter announced the ambitious goal of raising $20,000 by June 30, 1981. For practical purposes that goal has been reached, culminated by recent donations of an IBM typewriter and a small computer system . The computer, a TRS-80 system with 48K capacity, includes CPU, expansion interface, monitor, two disc drives, printer and custom desk. It was the gift of Terry Jeffers, a director in the Howard Ruff organization. FARMS will use it to keep the mailing list straight -- now grown to over a thousand names -- and for indexing papers, notes, bibliographies and research projects.


Preliminary Reports Aug 2023

Preliminary Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Robert F. Smith, "It Came to Pass' in the Bible and Book of Mormon." Manuscript, 1980. Pointing out that computer analysis will be necessary to make his observations conclusive, the author shows that the Book of Mormon, though less than a third the length of the King James Bible, contains more than twice as many recurrences of "came/come to pass." Furthermore, extensive cataloguing shows that all but three of the twenty books containing that phrase in the Bible are in the Old Testament. Another interesting characteristic: the phrase usually occurs in prose narrative, in both volumes of scripture. He explains …


Reprints Aug 2023

Reprints

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Research Committee Reports Aug 2023

Research Committee Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

FARMS is organized around research committees who largely determine the Foundation's program . The first fully-staffed committee is the twelve person panel on Book of Mormon-New World, chaired by John Sorenson. Its duties include evaluating research projects for technical adequacy, noting approaches or topics which might be fruitfully pursued, reporting on relevant research presented at professional meetings, responding to inquiries in their area of expertise, and otherwise serving as a panel of helpful scholarly resources . An evaluative and scholarly arm, not an administrative entity, the group's members vary in degree of involvement according to the time they feel they …


Project Updates Aug 2023

Project Updates

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The uncollected papers of Hugh Nibley, which he has given to FARMS, include a mouthwatering assortment of his work for the past twenty years. No decision has yet been made whether to prepare a comprehensive book or to offer them in a separate series of FARMS reprints. They include his 1968-69 series from The Improvement Era on the Book of Abraham, his 1975-76 series for The Ensign on Enoch, multi-part articles on baptism for the dead, "The Stick of Judah and the Stick of Joseph," a study of Book of Mormon criticism, some of his classical studies on the ancient …


Farms News Aug 2023

Farms News

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Projects described in the November 1980 newsletter continue, meanwhile here we spotlight another challenging research activity. John Hilton of Walnut Creek, California, has long had an interest in Book of Mormon studies. But his main talent is talking to computers -- and getting answers. He and his (non-Mormon) collaborator, Kenneth D. Jenkins, have access to a large computer complex during many hours per day . It's already ingested the modern and 1830 texts of the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price, and the King James version of the Bible, thanks to the cooperation of …


Meet Farms Aug 2023

Meet Farms

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Three men are lounging around a table. All of them are relaxed. All of them smile a lot. The talk is nonstop. And they all fairly bristle with energy.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Farms News Aug 2023

Farms News

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

It is exciting to read the mail and feel the enthusiasm participants have for FARMS projects. Here are examples of recent comments.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Manager's Report Aug 2023

Manager's Report

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, federal tax identification number 95-3442860, was incorporated in 1979 . In July 1981, its newsletter circulation was 850; currently over 3,000 newsletters are mailed to 43 states and 17 foreign countries. To date, over 4,000 Reprints and Preliminary Reports have been distributed. Recent asset acquisitions include a multilith offset press . Last fiscal year 46 people made financial contributions to FARMS; this year 204 people have contributed. FARMS has four part-time employees.


Preliminary Reports Aug 2023

Preliminary Reports

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

One of the Preliminary Reports offered with this issue is an examination of "International Relations and Treaties in the Book of Mormon'' by Mark Davis and Brent Israelsen. Their purpose is to identify ''principles of the law of nations'' in the Book of Mormon.


Reprints Aug 2023

Reprints

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

One of the papers offered in this issues' Reprint Series is "Pre-Columbian Old World Coins in America: An Examination of the Evidence, '' by Jeremiah F. Epstein (Current Anthropology 21 [Feb. 1980]: 1-20). Epstein surveys the field of Old World coins dating to pre-Columbian times that have been found in the United States, particularly within the last three decades, to determine how seriously such items should be taken. If valid, the existence of such coins would obviously be a powerful argument for diffusionists.


Notices And Reviews Aug 2023

Notices And Reviews

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

FARMS will be hosting an exhibit on Book of Mormon research in the Garden Court of the Wilkinson Center during BYU Campus Education Week, August 24-27 . We will be passing out literature, selling reprints, gathering suggestions and answering questions about Book of Mormon studies and current FARMS projects. If you are attending Campus Education Week, come by and introduce yourself. Encourage your friends to visit the display and add their names to our mailing list.


Farms News Aug 2023

Farms News

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

A valuable " think-tank" for the Book of Mormon Encyclopedia has just been organized as a six-man advisory council. They include dean of Mormon scholars Hugh Nibley, now professor emeritus of Ancient Scriptures at BYU; Merrill J. Bateman, former dean of BYU's School of Management; Blaine T. Hudson, president of Blaine Hudson Printing in Salt Lake City; Charles D. Tate, editor of BYU Studies; Robert K. Thomas, former BYU academic vice-president; and Jay M. Todd, managing editor of the Ensign.


Director's Message Aug 2023

Director's Message

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

It is hard not to be enthusiastic about the progress FARMS has made in the last twelve months. Hopefully the next twelve will see even more. The strong response of volunteers, donors and scholars has really kept us scrambling to stay ahead . We have benefited from all your comments and suggestions! Keep them coming!


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Director's Message Aug 2023

Director's Message

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

We hope you enjoy this latest Newsletter. We are excited about progress being made and hope you find the reports in this issue informative.


Farms News Aug 2023

Farms News

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

After a year of planning, FARMS announces the beginning of a very long, very tough, and very exciting project: the production of a Book of Mormon Encyclopedia.


Full Issue Aug 2023

Full Issue

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

No abstract provided.


1998 Reading Suggestions Old Testament And Pearl Of Great Price Aug 2023

1998 Reading Suggestions Old Testament And Pearl Of Great Price

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Each year FARMS compiles a list of books that may aid readers in their study of the scriptures in the Gospel Doctrine class of the Sunday School. For 1998, the assigned scriptures are the Old Testament and the Pearl of Great Price. We have made arrangements with several publishers to make available to FARMS subscribers at a 20% discount a number of good introductory books that may supplement your study of these scriptures. You may find these books helpful in supporting (not replacing) your study of these scriptures for the coming curriculum year. To order any book on this list, …


Videos Available In Pal Aug 2023

Videos Available In Pal

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

For a nominal charge of $1.50 above the regular price, any FARMS video can be converted into PAL format. Simply indicate on any FARMS order form your desire to have the PAL format, or call the FARMS office. We hope that this service makes FARMS videos more useful to subscribers around the world.


Nibley Temple Essay Reprinted Aug 2023

Nibley Temple Essay Reprinted

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

FARMS has reprinted (from volume 4 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley) an influential article by Nibley on the temple of ancient Israel, entitled "What Is a Temple?" The subheadings in the text give a sense of its content and emphases.