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Designing Collaborations Between Community Based Organizations And Schools To Produce Curriculum Models For Service-Learning Programs, Aitken Company

Curriculum

University of Minnesota Extension Service-Aitkin Performance Package

This curriculum is designed to give students the experience of developing, designing and obtaining financing to open and run their own business. This business is a coffee shop with Internet access that will be open to the general public. Students maintain various jobs to learn about management, operations, inventory, sales and customer service. Students participate in ongoing training focused on skills necessary for operating the coffee shop and for future jobs.

Data Analysis, Project Star

Evaluation/Reflection

Data analysis acts as the "Construction Phase" of your evaluation. The process of data analysis includes deciding on the appropriate analysis to conduct for each question, preparing data for analysis, and summarizing results. For outcome data, the result of analysis should enable you to answer the question, "What changed because of AmeriCorps services?"

‘‘Going Where The Questions Are’’: Using Media To Maintain Personalized Contact In Reference Service In Medium-Sized Academic Libraries, Sarah Brick Archer, Melissa Cast-Brede

Criss Library Faculty Publications

Different approaches to reference service have been added over the years, but the basic premise of the service has not changed–the desire to assist and educate users in locating information. As new technologies are added, such as desktop conferencing and web access, it is important that the personalized contact which is the heart of reference service be preserved. The human touch in the reference process is very important to the success of the reference transaction. Media can be useful in assisting reference librarians in ‘‘Going Where the Questions Are’’ while still maintaining the personal element in creating real-time reference transactions …

Learn & Serve Higher Education: Semi-Annual Report, Association For Gerontology In Higher Education

Evaluation/Reflection

Content:

-Interview Forms:
Faculty, Student, Agency Directors

-Evaluation Forms:
Faculty, Student, Agency Directors

-Resource Directory (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)

-Intergenerational Service-Learning (University of Findlay)

-News Clippings

The Abcs Of Reflection: A Template For Students And Instructors To Implement Written Reflection In Service-Learning, Marshall Welch

Evaluation/Reflection

Despite the importance and appeal of reflection in service-learning courses, many instructors and students struggle with implementing the process in a meaningful and practical way. This article provides a brief overview of the role of reflection and continues by describing a generic, user-friendly template for written reflection. The description includes an example to illustrate the approach and concludes with suggestions for holistic assessment procedures.

Evaluation Plan Checklist, Project Star

Evaluation/Reflection

Purpose of This Checklist: The Evaluation Plan Checklist will help you assess how "operational" your Evaluation Plan is. It has been designed to show what information is missing or not fully developed.

Why Use This Checklist: This Checklist will help ensure that your Evaluation Plans are clear and doable. It will provide tips to assist you in developing Evaluation Plans that stand alone and can be implemented by people new to the program. Implementing your evaluation should not depend upon some secret knowledge, or one person's memory of what sections of the Plan mean.

When to Use This Checklist …

Basic Data Analysis Steps (Pre And Post Data Analysis, Post Data Analysis), Project Star

Evaluation/Reflection

This packet is intended to assist AmeriCorps staff members who have had little or no data analysis experience. This document illustrates a simple way to analyze information using the example of a youth reading attitude survey. For further information, call Project STAR (800-548-3656) or visit the Web page at http://projectstar.org.

Self-Assessment Tool For Service-Learning Sustainability, Community-Campus Partnerships For Health

Evaluation/Reflection

This self-assessment tool was designed to assist you in assessing the stage of institutionalization of service-learning (SL) at multiple levels within your institution your department or division, your school or college, and your university or organization as a whole. We encourage you to consult your colleagues, students and community partners as you complete the tool. The tool is comprehensive, but please don't feel overwhelmed -if you don't know an answer, simply mark that on the form. Your answers, and the discussions that it stimulates, will assist you in developing a plan for SL sustainability. Having a better handle on what …

Minnesota Youthworks Americorps Sample Data Collection Tools, Minnesota Youthworks Americorps

Evaluation/Reflection

This guide contains sample program evaluation tools.

Methods And Strategies For Assessing Service-Learning In The Health Professions, Anu F. Shinnamon, Sherril B. Gelmon, Barbara A. Holland

Evaluation/Reflection

The "End-of-Program Survey" for faculty is intended to describe the perspectives and attitudes of faculty members on several issues related to their experience(s) teaching service-learning course(s). Topics assessed by the survey include the faculty's view on the impact they perceive service-learning has had on their students, their motivation for incorporating service-learning into their classes, the process of teaching service-learning courses, community involvement and the influence of service on their own professional development.

Partnerships That Work: National Service And Business In Welfare To Work, Robert J. Keast

Partnerships/Community

Welfare-to-work has come to the fore of the social policy debate in recent years. This especially has been the case since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). PRWORA significantly altered over 60 years of American welfare policy by creating a public assistance program with the aim of replacing public sector welfare checks with private sector paychecks. In order to reach this goal, time limits on receipt of assistance as well as stronger work requirements have become central in moving people from welfare and into work.

The National Society For Experiential Education Research Collaborative, National Society For Experiential Education

Service Learning, General

The National Society for Experiential Education is embarking on a new endeavor to advance our understanding of how experiential education impacts learning, teaching, and schooling in various contexts and communities. This endeavor, called the NSEE Research Collaborative, will convene national and local researchers to collaborate on a large-scale, multifaceted research study that will investigate various issues in experiential education.

Opinion: The Public Intellectual, Service Learning, And Activist Research, Ellen Cushman

Service Learning, General

While I support the good intentions of those who have recently proposed definitions of the public intellectual, I find these definitions problematic in their narrow delineation of the word "public"- they focus on a "public" consisting of middle and upper class policy makers, administrators, and professionals, and, in doing so, omit an important site for uniting knowledge-making and political action: the local community.

Self-Assessment Rubric For The Institutionalization Of Service-Learning In Higher Education, Andrew Furco

Service Learning, General

The Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Higher Education was designed to assist members of the higher education community in gauging the progress of their service-learning institutionalization efforts on their campus.

The rubric is structured by five dimensions that are considered by most service-learning experts to be key factors for higher education service-learning institutionalization. Each dimension is comprised of several components that characterize the dimension. For each component, a threestage continuum of development has been established. Progression from Stage One: Critical Mass Building to Stage Three: Sustained Institutionalization suggests that the institution is moving closer to fully institutionalizing …

Service-Learning For Preservice Teachers: Ethical Dilemmas For Practice, David M. Donahue

Service Learning, General

Increasingly in the United States, service-learning is being used to educate preservice teachers. Service varies greatly in its ethical foundation, however, and service-learning presents new teachers with a variety of dilemmas revealing the moral and political nature of teaching and service. This article presents one case of four preservice teachers writing curriculum as a service to a community agency hoping to promote service geared toward social justice among high school students. The case highlights ethical dilemmas faced by teachers in the process and illustrates the potential of service-learning to educate teachers for the moral imperative of their profession.

Educational Excellence For All Children Act Of 1999, U.S. Department Of Education

Service Learning, General

The President announced that he would shortly send to the Congress the "Educational Excellence for All Children Act of 1999," his proposal to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). This legislation reaffirms the critical role of the Federal Government in working with schools, school districts, and States to promote educational excellence for all children. Every child, parent, grandparent, and taxpayer deserves high quality public schools in their communities.

More specifically, the proposal would build on the 1994 ESEA reauthorization, which established the core principle that disadvantaged children should achieve to the same challenging academic standards as …

The Conference Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg) Of The Wctr Society, Volume 4 , Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 98-9

The Conference Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg) Of The Wctr Society, Volume 1 , Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 98-6

Priviledged Servants: Community Service In Private High Schools, Ellen Clarissa Reynolds

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

Traditionally, the school has been the primary role model for citizenship development. One method schools may use to convey the roles and models of involved citizens is through community service experiences.

Public and private schools throughout the United States include community service as part of the curriculum and/or extracurricular activities. Service promotes responsibility, a caring ethic, and growth of community. Service can improve society through individuals working together and forming a bond with one another. Service provides opportunities to witness the diverse cultures of society. Through service, students may experience affective and cognitive development, form relationships with community members, and …

The Conference Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg) Of The Wctr Society, Volume 3 , Tae Hoon Oum, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 98-8

Temporal Integration In 17- And 20-Month Old Infants As Assessed By Elicited Imitation, Rebecca M. Starr

Student Work

The present study used a unique task derived from the elicited imitation paradigm to assess temporal integration in 17- and 20-month-old infants. Experiment 1 implemented a simpler task than has previously been used in order to tap temporal integration ability in 17-month-olds. The results indicated that the performance of 17- month-olds did not improve over that of previous research (de Haan & Bauer 1997). Experiment 2 added storage and processing demands to the de Haan and Bauer task in order to assess the robustness of temporal integration ability in 20-month-olds. The results indicated that the performance of 20-month-olds did not …

Senior Outlook On Death And Dying: A Comparative Study Of Older Volunteers Serving Older Clients Versus Older Volunteers Serving Younger Clients, Charles O. Udstuen

Student Work

This thesis examines the attitudes toward death and dying held by volunteers in the Senior Companion Program as compared with those in the Foster Grandparent Program. These programs represent two distinct environments, since volunteers in the former program interact only with other senior citizens while those in the latter program interact with children. In recent years volunteerism has been studied extensively relative to the positive effects that volunteer activities have on those performing them. However, there is a lack of research on the effects of the particular surroundings in which the volunteers operate. The comparison of two groups of volunteers …

Health Professions Schools In Service To The Nation, Sherril B. Gelmon, Barbara A. Holland, Anu F. Shinnamon

Conference Proceedings

The Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation Program (HPSISN) was a multi-site, multi-year program designed to explore service learning as a tool for curricular reform within health professions education, and as a method for effectively preparing future professionals for work in a new health delivery system. With sponsorship from the Corporation for National Service and The Pew Charitable Trusts, 20 institutions were invited to participate from 1995 to 1998. The program was administered by the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California at San Francisco. A project-wide evaluation was commissioned at the beginning of the …

Health Professions Schools In Service To The Nation: Evaluation Report, Sherril B. Gelmon, Barbara A. Holland, Anu F. Shinnamon

Higher Education

The Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation Program (HPSISN) was a multi-site, multi-year program designed to explore service learning as a tool for curricular reform within health professions education, and as a method for effectively preparing future professionals for work in a new health delivery system. With sponsorship from the Corporation for National Service and The Pew Charitable Trusts, 20 institutions were invited to participate from 1995 to 1998. The program was administered by the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California at San Francisco. A project-wide evaluation was commissioned at the beginning of the …

Doing Well By Doing Good: A Study Of The Effects Of A Service-Learning Experience On Student Success, Judith S. Berson, William F. Younkin

Higher Education

This study explored the effects of service learning on student success in college. The study consisted of 286 students enrolled in six paired community college courses in various disciplines. One section of each pair was taught using traditional subject matter and course materials,while the other section of each pair was required to participate in a 20-hourservice learning activity in addition to the regular course curriculum.Participating faculty completed questionnaires and interviews regarding the courses, and students completed end-of-course evaluations. The results indicated that, overall, students who participated in the sections with a service learning requirement achieved higher final course grades and …

The Symposium Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg), Volume 2, Aisling Reynolds-Feighan, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 98-4

The Symposium Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg), Volume 1, Aisling Reynolds-Feighan, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 98-3

The Symposium Proceedings Of The 1998 Air Transport Research Group (Atrg), Volume 3, Aisling Reynolds-Feighan, Brent D. Bowen, Uno Aviation Institute

Faculty Books and Monographs

UNOAI Report 98-5

The Middle Years Programme (Myp) Workshop For Teachers & Administrators Beginning With The Programme, Miriam Murphy

International Service Learning & Community Engagement

This workshop features Community Service as Defined by IBO; Structure of Community Service at L'ECOLE D'EDUCATION INTERNATIONALE, St. Hubert (Quebec), a Canada; and Break-out Session.

Minority As A Majority: Does It Make A Difference?, Terrance J. Taylor

Student Work

The relationship between race and crime has long been a primary concern of criminal justice researchers. Numerous studies have examined this relationship through the use of official statistics, self-reports, and victimization surveys. The results of these studies present multiple and often conflicting results. Studies examining official statistics and victimization data have generally found a significant difference in delinquency between White and minority juveniles, with minority juveniles responsible for more delinquency than White youth in terms of both incidence and seriousness. Self-report studies, on the other hand, have often found no differences between minority and White youth, or smaller differences than …