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The Relationship Between Bible Literacy and Academic Achievement and School Behavior

William H. Jeynes*

California State University at Long Beach

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: whjharvard{at}post.harvard.edu.


  Abstract
This study assessed the relationship between Bible literacy among secondary school students and their academic achievement and school behavior. One hundred and forty students in the 7th to 12th grade were randomly selected from a Christian school. Four measures of Bible knowledge were combined to obtain an overall measure of Bible literacy. They included a brief Bible test, the ease with which students declared that they could recite the 66 books of the Bible in order, the final grade from the last Bible course taken, and the results of previous Bible testing. The results indicate that of the three groups of students, those with the highest level of Bible literacy also had the highest average GPA. the highest ranking in test and grade results, and the best school behavior of the three groups. In contrast, those with the lowest level of Bible literacy also had the lowest average GPA, the lowest ranking in test and grade results, and the worst school behavior of the three groups.

First published on December 5, 2008, doi:10.1177/0013124508327653

Education and Urban Society 2009;41:419.

A more recent version of this article appeared on May 1, 2009

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