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Diane Brothers Cook; Valerie Havill – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
A sample of 116 university students enrolled in developmental psychology courses participated in a study examining whether playing interactive video games with older adults would reduce students' misconceptions and negative stereotypes about older adults and increase their willingness to interact with older adults in the future. A service-learning…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Psychology, Intergenerational Programs, Stereotypes
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Valencia-Forrester, Faith; Backhaus, Bridget – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
Studying in a foreign country can be a valuable experience for international students, but it may also involve uncertainty, loneliness, and questionable graduate outcomes. Given the importance of the international student market to higher education institutions, there is a clear incentive to find ways of engaging international students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Foreign Students, College Students
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Light, Ashley; Altstadt, Amelia-Marie; Sanchez-Txabarri, Olatz; Bernstein, Stuart; McMahon, Patrice C. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
In the United States, the dearth of quality expanded learning opportunities (ELO), such as afterschool and summer programs, has long been recognized as a national concern (DeKanter et al., 2000). The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this problem, as expanded learning opportunities of all kinds became increasingly limited in spring 2020 (Carver &…
Descriptors: College Students, Service Learning, After School Programs, Low Income Students
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Pais, Sofia Castanheira; Dias, Teresa Silva; Benício, Deyse – Education Sciences, 2022
The mission of higher education institutions (HEI) includes fostering conditions that enable student participation, and a commitment to their professional success. Pedagogical strategies which combine learning that goes beyond the university and involves a service-learning (SL) course carried out in the context of a pedagogical innovation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, Service Learning
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Khanh Nguyen Phuong Tran; Cathy Weng; Phuong Lan Tran-Nguyen; Nguyen-Phuong-Dung Tran; Nicholas O. Awuor – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Community-oriented education has witnessed an increasing interest in online service-learning opportunities. Digital Learning Companion is an online service-learning project supported by Taiwan's Ministry of Education to give students experiential learning opportunities and practice social responsibility. As part of the initiative, 189 local and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Education, Electronic Learning, Service Learning
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Xiao, Chong; Wan, Kelvin; Chan, Wing-Fung Chad – Journal of Experiential Education, 2022
Background: The worldwide pandemic has shifted eService-Learning from a pedagogical innovation into a must, challenging the applicability of frameworks and principles previously developed. Purpose: The authors aim to verify whether extreme eService-Learning can be assessed within Ma and Lo's holistic outcome framework and how to ensure its…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Service Learning, Program Effectiveness
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Perez, Rosemary J.; Shim, Woo-jeong – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
Using comparative case study methods, we analyzed longitudinal data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education to examine if and how 23 college students' capacities for intercultural maturity (ICM) changed over the course of their college experiences. Those whose capacities increased often had immersion experiences wherein they were…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Awareness, Maturity (Individuals), Identification (Psychology)
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Khiatani, Paul Vinod; Liu, Jacky Ka Kei – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
The emergence of literature critically examining reciprocity in the determination of service-learning outcomes has signalled a need to rethink and re-evaluate service-learning research and practice. The current study seeks to give clarity by investigating the bidirectional benefits accrued by college students and their partners in four tutor-based…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Program Effectiveness, College Students, Tutoring
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Wrye, Bethany; Chafin, Cynthia; Higginbotham, Casie – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: It is well established that partnerships between universities and community organizations can serve to enhance student learning and employability (Anderson et al., 2011; Arantes do Amaral and Matsusaki, 2017; Jones and Sherr, 2014; Voss et al., 2015). Within this context, the purpose of this paper is to explore how one such partnership…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Internship Programs, Service Learning
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Suwaed, Hameda – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2018
Although service-learning, as a language teaching strategy, is considered important for developing the college students' academic and soft skills, or personal attributes that people need in order to work with others, including communication skills, empathy, social skills, listening skills and attitudes, it is still a neglected area in the Libyan…
Descriptors: Service Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Brice, Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Employers in Information Technology (IT) fields state that students entering the workforce may have solid programming skills, but they lack interpersonal skills, also known as employability skills. One way students may be able to improve their employability skills is to participate in service-learning projects as part of their regular college…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Empathy
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Díaz, Karla; Ramia, Nascira; Bramwell, Daniela; Costales, Felipe – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
A mixed methods study was conducted to determine if a mandatory hybrid service-learning course had an effect on the civic attitudes and skills of college students attending a private university in Ecuador. The Civic Attitudes and Skills Questionnaire (CASQ) was used in a quasiexperimental design using MANOVA with follow up t tests. After this…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Ka, Carol Ma Hok; Fung, Chad Chan Wing; Hoi, Issac Tse Pak – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
Use of service-learning is burgeoning among higher education institutions in Hong Kong and expanding in Asia. The positive student outcomes that have been reported in Western society, however, are not as widely recognized in Asian society. Asian institutions of higher education need a standardized measurement of outcomes that will help refine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Higher Education, Program Development
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Hervás Torres, Mirian; Fernández Martín, Francisco D.; Arco Tirado, José Luis; Miñaca Laprida, María Isabel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: The low productivity that prevailing in recent years in Higher Education requires urgently institutional responses aimed to improving quality of university education contributing to the development among students of key competences for lifelong learning. In this sense, the aim of this research was to explore the effects of an…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests
Fisher, Wynnie Lee Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Service-learning is a teaching methodology instituted by colleges and universities that allows students to make connections between theoretical learning in the classroom and authentic experiences in society. Historically, mission statements for institutions of higher education have reflected an idea of service and preparing active and socially…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, College Students, Citizenship Education
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