The Road to Self-Assessment: Less-Traveled But Essential

AbstractGeorge Rochberg often attributed his postmodern shift to the death of his son in 1964. Accordingly, the literature has described his practice of ars combinatoria (“art of combination”) as an “abrupt about-face”—a sudden rejection of modernist aesthetics. But the composer's unpublished essays, diaries, correspondence, and musical sketchbooks suggest that the road to ars combinatoria had well-laid roots in two of his least considered biographical periods: his service during World War II and his serial period. During these two decades, Rochberg actively sought positive models for humanistic composition, historical figures who rose to the level of musical heroes in that they served humanity through their art. But as the war had taught him, heroes are necessarily defined by their struggle against nemeses in ethical conflicts. Correspondingly, he constructed the other side of the artistic world as a realm of vain egoists who sought self-promotion and seemed unconcerned with humanistic modes of expression. As his ideas matured, Rochberg assigned different figures to these archetypes, but the guiding ethical criteria remained fairly consistent throughout. I therefore argue that ars combinatoria was less a sudden aesthetic reversal than it was the result of a longer cumulative process of self-assessment and compositional maturation.

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Grasshopper theology: Heading to the Promised Land instead of climate disaster

Review & Expositor ◽

10.1177/0034637318783203 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 115 (3) ◽

pp. 412-416

Author(s):

Brooks Berndt

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Body Of Christ ◽

Self Assessment ◽

The Road ◽

Promised Land ◽

The Future ◽

The Face ◽

On The Road ◽

Uncertain Future ◽

Climate Crisis

Today’s climate crisis provokes dystopian and utopian narratives of the future faced by humanity. To navigate the theological terrain between the present and an uncertain future, this article explores passages pertaining to the journey of Moses and the Israelites to the Promised Land. The guiding point of orientation for this exploration comes from a verse that captures the seeming powerlessness of the Israelites in the face of the giants inhabiting the Promised Land. Numbers 13:33 reads, “To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” Of crucial importance in coming to terms with such honest self-assessment is the period of discernment and growth that comes from being in the wilderness with the presence of a God who loves and empowers grasshoppers in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Because the future of the Body of Christ is inseparable from how the climate crisis is confronted, the journey through the wilderness becomes not merely a story for self-coping but rather a story about churches finding a way forward, even as some dystopian narratives place churches on the road to irrelevance and ultimately extinction. This article explores how the story of exodus provides a sacred ground for imagining a different, even if difficult, future.

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THE INTERDISCIPLINARY LESSON AS A FORM OF INOVATIVE AND EFFECTIVE TRAINING AT SCHOOL

Education and Technologies Journal ◽

10.26883/2010.202.2308 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 274-277

Author(s):

Teodora Pashalieva ◽

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Hristina Poparkova ◽

Keyword(s):

Information Technologies ◽

Fine Arts ◽

Seventh Graders ◽

Time Machine ◽

Self Assessment ◽

The Road ◽

Language History ◽

Effective Training ◽

Personal Qualities ◽

Self Knowledge

Learning by integrating different topics from one subject to another helps students build a complete image of the topic they are working on and makes the learning process effective and meaningful. The theme „The Bulgarian revival and the road to immortality“ is suitable for conducting an interdisciplinary lesson, which overlaps these subjects: Bulgarian language, history, music, fine arts and information technologies. Through the time machine, the seventh-graders from our school found themselves in a revival café, where they witnessed an interview with Dobri Chintulov, Kiro Tuleshkov and Ivan Vazov. Touching on these personalities, the students easily understood and interpreted questions related to the changes that occurred in Bulgarian society in the renaissance era, the change of the ordinary Bulgarian and the main directions in which the Bulgarian renaissance developed. In pertinent moments they sang Renaissance songs, with brush and paints recreated they images of Bulgarian Revivals. Their appreciation for those personalities who worked with all their dedication to resurrect the Bulgarian and led it to new heights was felt. The preferred method is suitable because it develops teamwork skills, self-assessment and self-knowledge, improves their communication skills, builds their personal qualities, which is a huge advantage compared to the classical form of training.

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The road to self-assessment: exemplar marking before peer review develops first-year students’ capacity to judge the quality of a scientific report

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education ◽

10.1080/02602938.2014.880400 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 39 (8) ◽

pp. 971-986 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Robyn Yucel ◽

Fiona L. Bird ◽

Jodie Young ◽

Tania Blanksby

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

First Year ◽

Self Assessment ◽

First Year Students ◽

The Road ◽

Scientific Report

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Actions, Intentions, and Self-Assessment: The Road to Self-Enhancement Is Paved with Good Intentions

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.1177/0146167203259932 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 328-339 ◽

Cited By ~ 87

Author(s):

Justin Kruger ◽

Thomas Gilovich

Keyword(s):

Self Assessment ◽

The Road

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Predicting Completion: The Road to Informed Study Decisions in Higher Online Education

Frontiers in Education ◽

10.3389/feduc.2021.668922 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Laurie Delnoij ◽

Jose Janssen ◽

Kim Dirkx ◽

Hieronymus Gijselaers ◽

Renate H. de Groot ◽

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Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Online Education ◽

The Self ◽

Informed Decision Making ◽

Prospective Students ◽

Self Assessment ◽

False Negatives ◽

Mathematical Skills ◽

The Road ◽

Ongoing Concern

Non-completion is an ongoing concern in higher education, and even more so in higher online education. One way to address this problem is to take initiatives prior to student enrollment, enabling informed decision making. In line with this, an institution for open higher online education seeks to develop a (non-committal) online self-assessment for prospective students. To identify variables (tests) to be included in this self-assessment, the present study aims at validating variables–previously identified as “predictive of completion in higher education and open to intervention before enrollment”—within the current higher online education context. Results of correlational analyses indicate that the following modifiable variables are relevant to include: hours planned to study, employment hours, study intention, discipline, discipline confidence, basic mathematical skills, and social support. Based on a sensitivity cut-off of 95% (to minimize false negatives) about 13% of the actual non-completers could be identified correctly. Implications for future development of the self-assessment are discussed.

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Evaluation of Road Traffic Safety in Huai Yin District of Jinan City Based on AHP

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.505-506.1167 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 505-506 ◽

pp. 1167-1171

Author(s):

Ya Fei Wang ◽

Dong Xu Zhang

Keyword(s):

Traffic Safety ◽

Structural Model ◽

Road Traffic ◽

Safety Evaluation ◽

Self Assessment ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Safety Level ◽

The Road ◽

Road Traffic Safety ◽

Jinan City

Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which needs less information and shorter time on decision-making, is selected for road traffic safety evaluation in this paper. Combined with the instance in Huai Yin district of Jinan city, the structural model that includes road conditions, intersections, straight sections, bends and ramps is proposed. Delphi method was used to construct the judgment matrix and then the MATLAB was used to calculate the corresponding weights of the various index of the entire road system. Combined with self-assessment of each index, then the safety level of the road is figured out.

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Spiritual Health—Te Taha Wairua

10.1093/oso/9780192845184.003.0012 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 138-150

Author(s):

David Beaumont

Keyword(s):

Spiritual Health ◽

Self Assessment ◽

Child Work ◽

The Road ◽

Acceptance And Commitment ◽

The Us ◽

Inner Child ◽

Self Discovery ◽

Health And Healing ◽

Definition Of

The significance of spiritual health in the Māori model of health. Author notes resistance in secular society to the term ‘spiritual’ and broadens the term to encompass our search for meaning: why we are here, why we exist. Maslow and our esteem needs, notably an acknowledgement of our capacities, achievements, and adequacy, by others and ourselves, to gain a sense of ‘being useful in the world’. The definition of spirituality from the Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare as ‘the way people engage with the purpose and meaning of human existence’. Using the framework from acceptance and commitment therapy, the author’s personal experience of defining his personal values. His reflection on his own personal beliefs and his personal journey to self-discovery. The concept of inner child work and its role in existential health and healing. A client’s own experience of finding his inner child. The concept of ‘best me’. Maslow’s theory of motivation. The concept of flourishing and the author’s personal self-assessment. The US psychiatrist Dr M. Scott Peck’s book The Road Less Travelled, and his insight that it takes courage to make tough life decisions. The power of the stories we tell ourselves.

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