A Study of the Ability of Twelfth Grade Girls to Apply the Principles of the Gospels to Hypothetical Life Situations
Abstract
It has been the aim of Catholic education to make Catholic high school graduates the better for having learned to apply the lessons of the Gospel texts to their own lives; the richer for having found, in Christ, an Ideal that is not likely to fade.However, up to the present date, very little experimental evidence has been presented to test whether or not this aim has been realized. I. THE PROBLEM It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the ability of twelfth-grade girls to associate appropriate Gospel stories with problems suggested by hypothetical life situations; (2) to discover whether students consider Christ their Ideal for the particular virtues illustrated in these Gospel stories. The investigation has sought to answer the following questions: 1. Do twelfth grade students associate appropriate Gospel stories with hypothetical life situations? 2. What virtues contained in the Gospel stories do these students seem to recognize most readily? 3. What virtues contained in the Gospel stories do the students seem to recognize least readily? 4. Do the students recognize Christ as an exponent or these virtues? 5. What particular characters other than Christ are given as exponents of these virtues? 6. What relationship exists between the ability of the students to recognize the Gospel story given to illustrate a particular virtue, and the part that the name of Christ plays when the students are asked to indicate a person of their choice to exemplify that particular virtue? 7. What differences, if any, exist between the responses made to the two parts of the test by the subjects in the upper quartile of mental ability and by those in the lower quartile of mental ability?
Subject Area
Religious education
Recommended Citation
Herbert, Dorothy Marie, "A Study of the Ability of Twelfth Grade Girls to Apply the Principles of the Gospels to Hypothetical Life Situations" (1948). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28927873.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28927873
