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Keeping Elo alive: Evaluating and improving measurement properties of learning systems based on Elo ratings. [PDF]

Br J Math Stat Psychol
Abstract The Elo Rating System which originates from competitive chess has been widely utilised in large‐scale online educational applications where it is used for on‐the‐fly estimation of ability, item calibration, and adaptivity. In this paper, we aim to critically analyse the shortcomings of the Elo rating system in an educational context, shedding ...
Bolsinova M, Gergely B, Brinkhuis MJS.
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Personal-ethical perspectives in the work of Etienne de Villiers

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2012
With a mixture of hesitation and gratitude, the author undertook a reflection from a pastor s viewpoint on Etienne de Villiers s personal-ethical contributions to date.
Andr� C.J. Van Niekerk
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Die stand van psalmsang in die NG Kerk

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2010
The status of psalm singing in the Dutch Reformed ChurchOver the past three decades, there have been consistent and increasing signs that psalms are disappearing from the repertoire of hymns that are sung in the Dutch Reformed (DR) Church.
Hendrika J. Jankowitz, Daleen Kruger
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Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk en die Republiek van die Oranje-Vrystaat: Hooflyne van ’n kerk-staatverhouding, 1854-1902

Contree, 2016
A close relationship existed between the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State and the Republic of the Orange Free State during the existence of the latter in 1854-1902.
Piet Strauss
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Met die oog op genesingsdienste in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk

Verbum et Ecclesia, 1991
Towards healing services in the Dutch Reformed Church The position of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa with regard to the world wide recovery of the Church s healing ministry is discussed.
J. P. J. Theron
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Kerklike tug: ’n ‘inhoudloze kerkordelijke aangelegentheid’ in ’n plurale kerk?

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023
Church discipline without content in a plural church? The Dutch theologian Leo Koffeman comes to the conclusion that church discipline is irrelevant and without content in a plural church.
Piet J. Strauss
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The Dutch Reformed Church Mission in Swaziland - A dream come true

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
This article covers the time from 1652 onwards when employees of the Dutch East India Company – most of whom were members of the Reformed Church in the Netherlands – arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in present South Africa.
Arnau van Wyngaard
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Historical and Ethnographical Publications in the Vernaculars of Colonial Zambia: Missionary Contribution to the 'Creation of Tribalism' [PDF]

, 2003
This essay examines the chronology and attributes of literate ethno-history in Northern Rhodesia. While the earliest published authors were invariably members of missionary societies whose evangelical policies were predisposed towards the ...
Macola, Giacomo
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WHAT CONVINCED THE WORLD COMMUNION OF REFORMED CHURCHES IN 1998 AND WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN 2015 TO READMIT THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AS A FULL MEMBER?

Acta Theologica, 2018
As members of the World Council of Churches, the two synods of the Dutch Reformed Church broke their ties with this institution in 1961, following the critisism of the Cottesloe Consultation of 1960 on apartheid. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches,
P Strauss
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Die Dordtse Kerkorde van 1619 en die NG Kerkorde van 1962: Laasgenoemde ’n ontwikkeling van eersgenoemde ten opsigte van die kerklike tug?

In die Skriflig, 2020
The Church Order of Dordtrecht of 1619 and of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1962: The latter a developement of the former on church discipline? A spokesman for the Commission of Actuarii who drafted the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church for a ...
Piet J. Strauss
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