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Record W1999603367 · doi:10.3138/tjt.16.2.251

What I learned Teaching new Testament 101

2000· article· en· W1999603367 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Terence L. Donaldson

Bibliographic record

VenueToronto Journal of Theology · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicBiblical Studies and Interpretation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsApostleStress (linguistics)ThursdayFellTheologyTheological seminaryNew TestamentEveningOld TestamentClass (philosophy)PsychologyReligious studiesPhilosophyMathematics educationSociologyLinguistics

Abstract

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For seventeen years, at 1:00 p.m. on the first Thursday after Labour Day, I walked into the main lecture room at the College of Emmanuel & St. Chad in Saskatoon, to find waiting for me the thirty or so students who had enroled in my two-semester course, "Introduction to the New Testament and Its World." Invariably, it was a mixed group. Usually the class was evenly split between theological students, registered through the Anglican or the United Church Seminary, and university students, registered through the Department of Religious Studies. For some of them the New Testament was familiar territory; others were hard put to tell the difference between an epistle and an apostle. Included in the latter group were students such as the one who, early in the semester, made some comment about the Pharisees and the "Seducees" (the accent fell on the second syllable!), and another who made reference in a paper to that less well-known disciple of Jesus, Judas Escargot. That these howlers were both produced by seminary students should serve to indicate that there was no necessary correlation between the degree for which a student was studying and his or her degree of biblical literacy. (Of course, the students present here this evening are not the kind to produce such blunderful wonders.)

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.044
Threshold uncertainty score0.148

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.004
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0440.016

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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