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Alumnus Eric Hoeksema: At Home In Ukraine, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Dordt Tops List For "Best Undergraduate Teaching" In Midwest, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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New Faculty Seminar Focuses On What Matters, Lydia Marcus

The Voice

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Thankful For Our Faculty, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Dr. Rikki Brons And Sioux Center Christian School Explore Language Learning, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Seeking Transformation, Bethany Van Voorst

The Voice

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Four Faculty Members Retire, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Project- And Problem-Based Stem Education, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Professional Experience, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Doubling Down On The Arts, Kate Henreckson

The Voice

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Small Teaching Creates Big Faculty Discussion, Kate Henreckson

The Voice

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Elizabeth Blankespoor, Sarah Moss

The Voice

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Religion In The Early British Literature Classroom: The Challenges Of Teaching Religion And Literature To Students Of Faith, Bob De Smith

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Practical Applications Of An Integrally Christian Approach To Teaching Mathematics, Valorie L. Zonnefeld

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Descriptions of various frameworks and approaches to integrating Christian faith in the mathematics classroom are explored, as well as examples and techniques. In particular, a subject-centered approach is advocated in contrast to the traditional teacher-centered approach or, more recently, the student-centered approach.

Mindsets, Attitudes, And Achievement In Undergraduate Statistics Courses, Valorie L. Zonnefeld

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of theories of intelligence and an intervention of incremental mindset training on students’ attitudes toward statistics and their mastery of content in an introductory statistics college course. The sample was 547 undergraduate students at a small, faith-based, liberal arts college in the Midwest.

A pretest-posttest design was used for the three instruments implemented. The Comprehensive Assessment of Outcomes in a first Statistics course (CAOS) assessed students’ statistical literacy. The Student Attitudes Towards Statistics – 36© (SATS©) assessed six components of students’ attitudes toward statistics including affect, cognitive competence, difficulty, effort, …

Teaching Technical Engineering Courses From A Christian Perspective: Two Examples, Charles C. Adams

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Engineering professors, like those of the natural sciences, usually teach by breaking the subject matter into parts, that is, courses and activities that are logically abstract from each other. While together comprising a coherent whole, those individual parts too easily foster abstractionism, the view that such subjects as calculus, fluid mechanics, engineering design, and engineering ethics “really are” separable from one another. Such a view militates against a Christian perspective of engineering, technology, and reality in general by replacing the organic wholeness of life before the face of God with the compartmentalization that is characteristic of modern science and naturalism. …

Mathematics: Always Important, Never Enough: A Christian Perspective On Mathematics And Mathematics Education, Calvin Jongsma

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This article is an edited version of the keynote address delivered by Dr. Jongsma at the B.J. Haan Education Conference on Teaching Math in the Christian School, held at Dordt College on March 9, 2006, for elementary and secondary school mathematics teachers, primarily in Christian schools. The article was earlier published online in the 2006 Journal of the ACMS (http://www.acmsonline.org/Jongsma.htm).

Defining The Phenomenon Of Teaching Christianly At A Christian College: A Study Conducted At Dordt College, Barb Hoekstra

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Despite the high value that Christian colleges place on teaching, there is scant literature on teaching christianly in higher education. Pedagogy that promotes Christian beliefs resides in the K-12 literature. Using the work of Van Brummelen (1988) and Van Dyk (2000) originally developed for teaching christianly at the K-12 level, a conceptual framework was developed. This study investigated what it means to teach christianly at a small Christian college. A qualitative, phenomenological approach was used to explore teachers’ perceptions and beliefs about teaching christianly in higher education. A criterion sampling strategy was used in selecting 10 participants who had the …

We Have Heard It Said: Reflections On Christian Engineering Scholarship, Murat Tanyel

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Learning To Teach From Within A Christian Perspective, John H. Kok

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Dr. John H. Kok presented this paper at the IAPCHE conference at Hilltop University in Mikar, Nigeria, in 1999.

Vision Of History For Students, Harry J. Groenewold

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Defining Moments In Western-Global History, Harry Van Dyke

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Johnny, His Teachers, And Their Teachers, James C. Schaap

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