A study of the biblical worldview of twelfth grade students from Christian and public high school

The Christian community is interested in its youth developing a biblical worldview. The goal of this dissertation was to examine the biblical worldview scores of second semester high school seniors involved in similar church youth ministries, but who had different biblical worldview training. This study compared biblical worldview scores of those who did and those who did not receive a more deliberate and intentional training curriculum. More specifically, students who attended a Christian school that provided biblical worldview training were compared to students who attended the public school and who did not receive the same level of biblical worldview training.The student's worldview was measured by the Raymond Meyer Worldview Instrument (2003). Five church youth ministries and their respective schools agreed to participate in this project. A "t-test" for independent samples compared the mean scores of the two groups. Although the students receiving additional worldview training at the Christian school scored higher, statistical significance was not reached. However, statistical significance was reached when comparing the public school students to those who had received additional worldview training for seven or more years at the Christian school. Integrating biblical truth into instructional and curriculum components over a period of time seems to positively impact the student's worldview. Also, this study suggests perhaps the congruency between the church and school in worldview training creates a level of synergy that increases the worldview scores of students.