Service Learning Commons^™

Service Learning Project Matrices, Providence College's Slate Project

Curriculum

Service learning project matrices for Kindergarten, 3rd grade, 3rd/4th grade, and upper elementary levels.

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?"

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.

Techniques Utilised To Incorporate Environmentally Focused Service Learning Projects Into Courses In Biology And Economics, Bridget Lyons, Jennifer Mattei, Phyllis Machledt

WCBT Faculty Publications

Sacred Heart University has emphasised the use of service learning for over five years. Service Learning offers students opportunities to learn and develop through active participation in service experiences that are integrated into the academic curriculum. The work meets community needs and is directly linked to the content of the course. A Service Learning course includes reflection and analysis of the service experience. Two recent courses at Sacred Heart University incorporated environmentally focused service learning projects: one in biology and one in economics. This paper discusses the development and outcomes of these two projects: a park restoration project and a …

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 …