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Jimmy Smith; Catherine Zeisner; Ryan Turcott – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
The current research utilized a modern word cloud tool to assess the effectiveness of course objectives and outcomes of a community-engaged learning and core curriculum course at a private Catholic University. The foundational course revolves around social justice using the setting of sport and physical activity. Beginning with a final reflection…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Educators, Religious Colleges, Core Curriculum
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Nickel, Jodi; Hughes, Scott Frederick – Reading Horizons, 2020
This article describes a community service learning collaboration between a teacher education program and a nonprofit literacy society. Seventeen teacher candidates (TCs) tutored young readers weekly for seven months as part of their course-related field experience and completed reflective assignments analyzing their own learning and the learning…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Tutors
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Tijsma, Geertje; Hilverda, Femke; Scheffelaar, Aukelien; Alders, Sven; Schoonmade, Linda; Blignaut, Nadine; Zweekhorst, Marjolein – Educational Research, 2020
Background: To prepare students to become productive 21st century citizens, universities have to be more engaged with society. Shifting towards community service learning (CSL) enables students to participate in, and reflect on, services that both benefit the public and also contribute to their own learning. There has been considerable research…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Citizen Participation, Service Learning, Instructional Design
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Wood-Nartker, Jeanneane; Hinck, Shelly; Hullender, Ren – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Assessment and evaluation practices within honors programs have attracted considerable attention within the honors academic community, e.g., the spring/summer 2006 volume of the "Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council." Calls for carefully created and constructed assessment activities within honors programs have met with mixed…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Skill Development
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Macknish, Cynthia J. – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
Reflection is a crucial element in service-learning and having English as a second language (ESL) students create multimodal reflections on their service-learning experience helps them develop multiliteracies and results in learning that is authentic and meaningful as students engage in social discourse while they develop their academic language…
Descriptors: Service Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McDonald, Betty – Online Submission, 2012
Offering meaningful service to the community while engaging in active learning is a pedagogical strategy that has come to be known as service-learning. Both learner and the community are mutual recipients of benefits derived from the process. The fundamental question that remains is, "How do we assess the learner in this non traditional…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Active Learning, Service Learning, Nontraditional Education
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Scott, Joel H. – New Directions for Student Services, 2012
For the better part of the past 100 years, John Dewey, Ernest Boyer, and other higher education reform advocates have challenged universities to hold true to their civic roots and responsibilities by promoting teaching and scholarship in the context of the real world. In response, service-learning has evolved into a viable pedagogy to encourage…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Moral Development, Service Learning, Social Responsibility
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Molee, Lenore M.; Henry, Mary E.; Sessa, Valerie I.; McKinney-Prupis, Erin R. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to describe and examine a model for assessing student learning through reflection in service-learning courses. This model utilized a course-embedded process to frame, facilitate, support, and assess students' depth of learning and critical thinking. Student reflection products in two service-learning courses (a…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Reflection, Service Learning, Models
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2009
The materials in this toolkit contain information about the five core components of a service-learning project: investigation, planning and preparation, action, reflection, and demonstration/celebration. Also included are the standards and indicators of K-12 service-learning. The information is organized into an overview and five chapters, each…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Service Learning, Planning
Miller, Richard L., Ed.; Amsel, Eric, Ed.; Kowalewski, Brenda Marsteller, Ed.; Beins, Bernard C., Ed.; Keith, Kenneth D., Ed.; Peden, Blaine F., Ed. – Society for the Teaching of Psychology, 2011
To promote student engagement, professors must actively seek to create the conditions that foster engagement. Chickering and Gamson (1987) suggest that good practices in undergraduate education are ones that: encourage student-faculty contact, develop reciprocity and cooperation among students, encourage active learning, provide students with…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Majors (Students), Undergraduate Study