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Welch, Marshall – Issues in Educational Research, 2010
This article presents a rubric to help instructors conceptualize, implement, and assess service-learning courses. Using a first-letter mnemonic of O.P.E.R.A., the rubric incorporates principles of best practice to provide a framework for enumerating objectives (O), exploring community partnerships (P), identifying the type of service learning…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Mnemonics, Scoring Rubrics, Educational Objectives
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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
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McCrea, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Management Education, 2010
Despite fairly widespread recognition that entrepreneurship occurs in both profit and nonprofit enterprises, a review of experiential learning techniques in entrepreneurship education does not explicitly mention service-learning. This omission may be because of a perceived lack of relevance of the pedagogy to entrepreneurship, the belief that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experiential Learning, Learning Experience, Entrepreneurship
Ash, Sarah L.; Clayton, Patti H.; Atkinson, Maxine P. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2005
Intentionally linking the assessment of student learning outcomes of service-learning with reflection allows each to inform and reinforce the other. This paper traces the evolution of a strategy that uses reflection products as data sources to assess and improve both individual student learning and program-wide approaches to reflection. Two tools…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Thinking Skills, Student Evaluation, Reflection