Bibliographic record
Abstract
In September, 1976 I arrived at the Lutheran Theological Seminary (LTS) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, as a young woman embarking on an experience of theological education.I had grown up in the Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod, active at both the congregational and district levels.Earlier, in confirmation, I had felt a desire for ordained ministry but was told that this was not possible because I was female.However, the church continued to be a place of support and encouragement for me.This resulted in my applying to LTS to further my education with hopes of working in the area of pastoral care.My four years at LTS were very important formative years both in preparation for my future ministries but also in providing an environment where my faith could deepen and mature.The professors, staff and student community all contributed to my experience at LTS.However, Dr. Erwin Buck was particularly supportive, encouraging and welcoming of my dropping in to his office for conversation.This was a tumultuous time both in the broader church and the seminary.The decision to ordain women had been recently passed at national church conventions in the Lutheran Church in America (LCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCC).As one of the early women at seminary, I experienced a lot of turbulence as I was discerning God's call for my ministry.I remain grateful for Dr. Buck's openness and support for me personally but even more for his faithful witness to the Gospel and his love for God's church.To experience his passion and integrity in class, in his preaching and in his interactions with students and faculty, modeled for me what it means to answer God's call to be a person of faith in this world.His example has helped me over the years find the courage to live with integrity and passion.Hence, the title of this essay, Integrity and Passion in Teaching.Most of us can identify a teacher in our lives who had a significant influence on us.It might have been a parent or grandparent, a Sunday School teacher, confirmation pastor, or a 49
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.014 | 0.037 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".