Judgment Analysis for Characterizing Campus Ministry Functions

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the judgmental policies of campus ministry held by campus ministers at state-supported universities when the campus ministers were grouped according to the campus minister's ministry group, years of personal campus ministry experience, size of the student body, campus minister's position at the school, and the campus minister's age by decade of birth. The ultimate goal of the research was to provide both clergy and laity with a clearer understanding of the role of campus ministry at state-supported universities. The questionnaire used in the study was developed using the critical incident technique. Supervisors of campus ministry were asked to list the three most important ministry goals or role functions or campus ministry at state-supported universities. The responses were tabulated and a 17-item questionnaire was formed. In order to determine reliability, a pilot test of the questionnaire was conducted. The subjects (N = 276) who participated in the study be responding to the questionnaire were campus ministers in ten ministry group affiliations at state-supported universities during 1982. They rated 17 goals of campus ministry and gave a rating to a program of campus ministry that would have the 17 goals as principal objectives, The Judgment Analysis technique was used and the campus ministers were found to be clustered in six judgmental areas related to ministry group.