Bible Knowledge and Moral Judgment: Knowing Scripture and Using Ethical Reasoning

Conceptualizing and measuring social and emotional learning: A systematic review and meta-analysis of moral reasoning and academic achievement, religiosity, political orientation, personality

“…Four studies used GPA scores (Peeters & Boddu, 2016;Sisola, 2000;Traiser, 2007;Traiser & Eighmy, 2011). The remaining five studies used a variety of measures including: the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT, Kaufman & Kaufman, 1993 (Stankov, 1997) (Marx et al, 2007); Academic Profile (Nelson, 2004); the Graduate Record Exam (Nodie Oja, et al, 2011); and the Wechsler Adult intelligence Scale (Wechsler, 1955) (Skoe & von der Lippe, 2002).…”

“…Higher scores indicated that an individual held a world view where their maintaining norms schema included religious beliefs. Nelson (2004) assessed religiosity using the Standardized Bible Content Test (American Association of Bible Colleges, 1991). Form E of this measure comprises 150 multiple choice questions, with higher scores indicating higher levels of Bible knowledge.…”

Moral Identity of Teachers of the Underprivileged

“…Protestants were more likely than were Jews to consider thoughts about immoral actions to be immoral in and of themselves, whereas Jews were shown to focus much more on behavior than on mental states in making certain moral judgments (Cohen, 2003). Nelson (2004) reveals that Bible knowledge, among college students, is positively related with the postconventional morality as measured by the DIT, and negatively correlated with preconventional morality. He further states that these relationships could not he simply explained by the level of cognitive ability of the students.…”

An Assessment of Bible Knowledge among Adult Southern Baptist Sunday School Participants

“…The implications for the current research study on the level of biblical literacy of adult SBC Sunday school participants are numerous. A review of the literature (Armstrong, 1996;Barna & Hatch, 2001;Barna Research Online, 1990, 2000, 2003, 2011Bible Literacy Project, 2005;Burge, 1999;Clark, 1991;Edge, 1995;Gallup, 1990;Gallup & Castelli, 1989;Gorski, 2008;Greeley & Hout, 2006;Ham & Beemer, 2009;Kroll, 2000Kroll, , 2007Lindbeck, 1989;Long, 1994;Nash, 1988Nash, , 1990Nash, , 1992Nelson, 2004;Pew Forum, 2008;Prothero, 2008;Reese, 2010;Smith & Denton, 2005;Vlach, n.d.;Watanabe, 1999;Wells, 1993) revealed a substantive gap in terms of solid empirical re-search into the phenomenon of Bible literacy among Southern Baptists. While several studies have emerged in the last decade that attempted to provide statistical backing that churches, in general, are "dropping the baton" in regard to transmission of Bible knowledge to their parishioners, nothing has been done to address the specific population of adult SBC Sunday school participants.…”