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A Reflective and Quantitative Investigation of Relationships Between Aural Dictation, Sight Singing, Performance and Composition Skills Tertiary-Lifelong"This study combined two independent investigations into the relationships between aural dictation, sight singing, performance and composition skills. The first investigation involved the composition of a suite of piano pieces as a means of reflecting... -
A Study of the Health Status of Filipino Workers in Selected Seventh-day Adventist Institutions in the Philippines Lifelong"The Adventist health message is unique among religious groups. For that reason, Adventists have been part of many health studies in developed countries. This small study focuses on the health of Adventist employees in a developing country. Many of the... -
Deconstructing Myths in Quantitative Research Tertiary-Lifelong“A myth can denote a prevalent but erroneous idea or belief. This article examines nine of these beliefs within quantitative research, that although popular, are ultimately misconceptions.” -
Factors influencing Belize district primary school teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education Grade 1-Grade 8Inclusive education continues to be a reoccurring challenge as various factors affect to what extent teachers or educators are willing to educate children with disabilities in the regular education setting alongside their non-disable peers. This quantitative... -
Family Life, Religion and Religious Practice in an Asian Adventist Context Lifelong"Awareness of the impact of societal change on family and marital satisfaction led to this study of the relationships between religious belief and practice, marital and family life satisfaction and events within respondents’ lives in Asian contexts.... -
Growing Up Within a Religious Community - A Case Study of Finnish Adventist Youth Grade 9-Grade 12Utilising an ecological framework, this study presents a meta-analysis of four sub-studies investigating the socialisation experiences of young people affiliated with a religious minority community. More precisely, it is a study of how this particular socialisation... -
Higher Education in Sint Maarten: Fostering Growth of Teacher Knowledge in Mathematics and Science Tertiary-Lifelong"A needs analysis conducted as part of the foundation-based education (FBE) innovation on the island territory of Sint Maarten indicated the need for additional training of early primary teachers (PK–2) in mathematics and science education. Seven... -
Opinions on Family and Social Issues Associated with Religious Practice in Southeast Asia Lifelong"This second part of the data analysis of a large sample of Seventh-day Adventist church members addresses opinions and practices relating to family and social issues. It identifies differences in opinion with age, gender, religious orientation and region... -
Perception of Faculty Participation in Academy Governance in the Central Luzon Conference, Philippines Grade 9-Grade 12This study explores faculty and administrators’ views about faculty participation in school governance. Ten dimensions of teacher participation were considered for this study: goals, vision or mission, facilitating procedures and structures, curriculum... -
Personality Types, Preferred Learning Modalities, and College Majors of Students in Luzon Tertiary"This study investigated the relationship of personality types, perceptual learning styles, and the choice of academic major of college students. The subjects were 500 students from six selected academic majors in SDA tertiary schools in North Philippines.... -
Professional Learning Styles and Workplace Performance - And Exploratory Descriptive Study in Higher Education Tertiary"Higher education is no longer seen as optional in today’s society due to the rapid changes experienced in our global economy. Lifelong learning is expected if one is to keep up with the times. Because of this, schools need to change their focus... -
Required Competencies for the Academic Deans - Basis for a Competency - Based Performance Appraisal Tertiary"This study determined the competencies and level of competencies required of the academic deans along the technical, personal and managerial areas as perceived by school heads, superior of deans, and deans themselves in order to construct a model of... -
School leadership retention: A study of servant leadership and school leader satisfaction Preschool-Grade 12The purpose of this quantitative correlation study was to find the relationship between the level of perceived servant leadership and the school leader job satisfaction in the North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day Adventists P-12 schools. This quantitative... -
Student Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Student Service in an Adventist College in the Philippines TertiaryThis study aims to determine the student perceptions of the effectiveness of student services in one Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher education on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. A user satisfaction scale adapted by the researcher from the... -
Teacher Participating in Decision Making - A Comparative Study of School Leader and Teacher Perceptions in North Philippine Academies Grade 9-Grade 12"Shared decision making (SDM) has been identified as an essential element in successful educational reform. This study compared the perceptions of school leaders and teachers regarding actual and preferred faculty participation in decision making across... -
Teachers Perceptions of Preferred Teaching Strategies in a Faith-Based College TertiaryCollege teachers frequently have training in their subject area but not in the field of education, yet they spend much of their lives making educational decisions that affect learners. With schools beginning to pay more attention to teaching, this mixed method... -
That God May Know My Integrity Tertiary-Lifelong“This article, through a cursory review of the literature, considers historical developments in the ongoing debate between the quantitative and qualitative worlds of research as they pertain to ethics and integrity in research.” -
The Impact of Epistemology on Approaches to the Study of Organizational Culture - Some Examples from Information Systems Lifelong"Organizational culture has been increasingly studied as a tool for management and business. Because of its complexity, however, results have not been easily quantified or compared. This paper suggests that the design of the research may very much affect the result of the study, and that different designs may be more appropriate for specific situations, based on the research question under study. -
The Integration of Values and Business (IVB) in SDA Organizations in the Metro Manila Area - An Observation Lifelong"Often business is taken for granted, even by SDA administrators. The integration of values and business is not dealt with in a practical and systematic manner. The inclusion of SDA values, while commendable, is not enough. What is called for is the actual... -
The Performance of Trilogy Functions of Higher Education of Selected NOCEI-member HEIs in the CALABARZON Provinces Tertiary"Often the three functions of the trilogy of higher education, which consist of teaching, research and community service, are not assigned equal merit. The priority for performance is only given to teaching, and to a certain extent to research efforts,... -
The Relationship Between Expenditure and Student Achievement in Seventh-day Adventist K-8 Schools in the United States Kindergarten-Grade 8"School finance literature is replete with studies that investigate the relationship between spending and student achievement. Some researchers have found positive relationships between the two variables while others found spending to have no effect on... -
The Relationship Between Research Knowledge and Research Output for College Faculty - An Asian Case Study Tertiary"Faculty participation in research is of increasing importance in institutions of higher education worldwide. A growing literature is springing up that explores faculty research output and ways of increasing it. This small (n = 71) study done at an international... -
The Relationship Between Student Religiosity, Integration of Faith and Learning and Selected Congregational and Family Factors Tertiary"An investigation of the relationships among students’ perceptions of selected congregational and family factors of adolescent religiosity, Integration of Faith and Learning (IFL), and student religiosity. The respondents were 374 students in SDA...