Research That Does Not End: A Sampled Research Approach for Discovering, Engaging and Sustaining Authentic Praxis Ministry
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Abstract
A Fresh Startfor a Seasoned Degree the students, the school, the local congregation and for the broader church and world.The final section will be a brief conclusion.It is my sincere hope that the reader will find this article to be informative and compelling in support of rebooting and giving a fresh start to a degree that is almost 50 years old. The Uniqueness, VaJue and Limitations of the Doctor of Ministry DegreeThe Doctor of Ministry degree is unique to theological schools and to the ministry.It was envisioned as a terminal degree for persons who were actively engaged in some form of ministry.It was designed to provide persons in ministry with the opportunity to critically assess the strengths and weaknesses, the opportunities and challenges of the context where they were carrying out their ministry.The DMin student was then expected to design and implement a theologically grounded project that addressed an issue that the analysis of the context had revealed might be critical to the transformation of that context.The value of the Doctor of Ministry degree is multi-layered.It provides the student with the opportunity to more fully develop a wide range of skills that are essential to effective ministry.It also affords the opportunity for the student, who is also a practitioner, to engage in theological reflection that is rarely available while a person is actively engaged in ministry.The value is also to the locale where the ministry is being carried out.Because the DMin project is designed for a particular context, that context benefits from the insights and practical applications that emerge from the project.Even if a well designed and implemented project does not produce all the desired outcomes, the assessment of where the project was deficient and the systematic analysis of the circumstances that helped create the less than desirable outcomes can provide valuable information for better outcomes in the future.Depending on the structure of the Doctor of Ministry program, the DMin can also provide the students with peers in their cohort group that can produce new relationships that have the potential to create ministerial support systems that last long after the degree has been obtained.Due to the stress and the loneliness of ministry, the value of such relationships cannot be overestimated.To be able to talk openly and honestly to persons The Leadership Practicum؛ The Space Where DMin Education, Action Based Research and Interfaith Dialogue ConvergeMarsha SnulJigan Haney؛
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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 | 0.119 | 0.136 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".