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In Service Of Service-Learning: Framing An Evaluation For Effective Programs, Steven Schuman

Evaluation/Reflection

In 1991 at the Wingspread Conference (Giles, Honnet, and Migliore, 1991) two broad questions emerged to help define and frame the evaluation of service-learning programs:

1) What was the effect of service-learning on intellectual, moral, and citizenship development of participants?

2) What was the effect of service-learning on the advancement of social institutions and democracy?

Learn And Serve America: Higher Education Evaluation Requirements, Learn And Serve America

Evaluation/Reflection

Every program that receives Learn and Serve America: Higher Education funding should establish:

• a set of annual objectives
• a system for using "customer" feedback to improve program quality
• a system for collecting additional descriptive and demographic data

Measuring Citizenship Project, Walt Whitman Center For The Culture And Politics Of Democracy

Evaluation/Reflection

Issuing out of the success of the Civic Education and Community Service Program at Rutgers University, in 1992 the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy embarked on a measuring citizenship project to explore the relationship between community, citizenship, and service learning. The Project's main goal is to develop a working, empirical instrument that will measure the impact of service learning and other forms of civic experience on citizenship. This civic literacy test will determine how service learning and other civic experiences, such as jury service or military service, effect an individual's perceptions and commitments to his …

Community Service Program: Evaluation Information System Manual, The Commission On National And Community Service

Evaluation/Reflection

In 1990 Congress established the Commission on National and Community Service (CNCS) under the National and Community Service Act. The mandate of the Act is to test innovative and model programs to "renew the ethic of civic responsibility" through service to the community.

Curriculum Workshop, Robert D. Shumer

Evaluation/Reflection

This is an introductory workshop on developing curriculum using a student-centered, community-based approach. It is founded largely on the philosophy of John Dewey and represents an approach produced at the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. It has been implemented in many school districts across the country in the 1970s and 1980s, and is still a very viable approach to curriculum development in the 1990s. It is not specifically limited to service-learning programs; it is applicable to any program where students expect to earn academic credit for learning which occurs outside the classroom. It is intended for use …

Reflection: At The Heart Of Experiential Learning, Robert D. Shumer

Evaluation/Reflection

Life is nothing but a series bf experiences. Many experiences pass us by, quickly forgotten. Others make an impact, for some reason, and we remember them well. How we deal with our experiences measures how much we can learn from them: whether we think or reflect on what has happened determines if an experience will be lasting and rewarding or simply slip into oblivion.

Evaluating Student Volunteer And Service-Learning Programs: A Casebook For Practitioners, Michele Whitham, Eric C. Little, Michael Whitesage, Richard Cone, Jane Szuru Permal, Jack Knott, Roy A. Weaver, James H. Mcelhinney, Joyce K. Allen, Roger Henry, Terrence J. Mctaggart, Janet Warnert

Evaluation/Reflection

Today, evaluation concepts and methods are widely available to those who plan and administer student volunteer programs. Unfortunately, however, evaluation has all too often been carried out-and written about-in ways that have robbed it of its usefulness to people dealing with the realities of day-to-day program operation. Evaluation has thus acquired the reputation among practitioners of being too complex, too costly, too time-consuming, even too threatening to be of much practical value.

Learning Outcomes: The Measurement And Evaluation Of Experimential Learning, John S. Duley

Evaluation/Reflection

The focus of this paper is on measuring and evaluating the learning acquired by students in field experience education, not on program evaluation. This paper serves as an introduction and supplement to the books listed on the last page. One of these, EFFICIENT EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE IN FIELD PLACEMENT, is provided as part of this PANEL Resource Paper.

Staff Use Of Time And Evaluation Of Teacher Training, Genevieve Burch

Publications

Second Year Evaluation of an Alcohol Prevention Program in Four Catholic High Schools

National Juvenile Justice Program Collaboration - Evaluation Report, Genevieve Burch

Publications

Evaluation of a Collaboration of National Non-Profit Health and Welfare Organizations as They Worked Together to Serve Status Offenders and Other Youth at Risk

Evaluating Serving Learning Programs: A Guide Of Program Coordinators, Action

Evaluation/Reflection

Evaluation is a skill which is often surrounded with an aura of mystery. As a result, many program coordinators are reluctant to undertake evaluations. Some feel they do not have the necessary and special skills. Others do not see how evaluation -- which seems to concern itself with past activity-- can work to make programs different or better in the future. In point of fact, however, evaluation is one of the administrator's most important tools for planning future operations. And evaluation is most definitely a tool that can be used successfully by program coordinators who have not had any special …

Service-Learning, Donald J. Eberly

Service Learning, General

Service-learning integrates the accomplishment of a needed task with educational growth.