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  Predictors of sixth-grade English-reading performance in Adventist Schools in Mindanao, Philippines

  (Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2006-07) Vasquez, Olivia Borci

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  Proficient reading determines the academic success and eventually the future of the school child. Reading is among the important skills upon which other academic learning can be achieved by school children. In the Philippines, reading is an interactive process of getting and making meanings of prints. This process involves the personal characteristics, home environment, and school influences. The main purpose of this study was to determine the significant child, home, and school reading-related predictors of the sixth-grade English-reading performance. Employing the step-by-step cluster random sampling, 10 Adventist schools located within the city of Mindanao, Philippines, were selected. From these schools, 335 sixth graders participated in this study. This study is basically quantitative using the descriptive-correlational design. The combined literal and inferential comprehension of the sixth-graders as English-reading performance was predicted by being a girl (0 = .22 at p < .001), having positive attitude towards reading (P = .19 at p < .01), and having a college graduate mother (P = .16 at p < .01). Varied classroom-reading events such as teacher direct- whole-class instruction, teacher-class interaction, answering worksheets independently, and other events being paired with specific skills were also predictors. It was established by this study that personal characteristics, as well as the home and school environments, are factors of English-reading performance of the sixth graders. It is important to note that gender, attitude, mother's education, and exposure to the varied classroom reading events are significant considerations in the nurture of a school child towards academic success.

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  Sanctification and holiness (1 Corinthians 7:14) : an investigation of the meaning of the Greek words Hegiastai and Hagia within the context of intermarriage

  (Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, 2007-01) Tandidio, Swineys

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  This study investigates the meaning of the Greek words fiYtaoxai and ayia within the context of 1 Cor 7:14. The thesis employs the historical-grammatical method. Based on the Jewish view regarding intermarriage, in Paul's time, some of the Corinthian Christians considered intermarriages with unbelievers to be illegal unions, and the resultant children dKaSapra "unclean," "illegal" or "bastards." They might also have concluded their church had been defiled and profaned, necessitating divorce. In confronting this view, Paul employed the words ■^yiaorai "he or she has been sanctified" and ayia "holy." This investigation tries to defend that in 1 Cor 7:14, the Christian party of an intermarriage sanctifies his unbelieving spouse, in the sense that the unbeliever is legitimately attached to the Christian party as a spouse. The children of the intermarriage are holy in the sense that they are legal children. This study concludes that the usage of the terminology of sanctification and holiness may be considered as a non-soteriological sanctification and holiness. However, the unbelieving spouse and children of such a marriage may have a chance of being converted into Christianity, due to the existence of the Christian party in the family as indicated in 1 Cor 7:16. If they accept Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, they will be sanctified and become holy in Him. In this case, they will possess the so-called soteriological sanctification and holiness.

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