RISE (Reading Intervention Sans Expense) is a one-on-one reading intervention that involves maximizing human resources, not expending dollars. Tutors are high school students enrolled in a community service learning course who are trained in guided reading. Research suggests that RISE is an effective and efficient intervention that impacts all of…

The central purpose of this study is to increase our understanding of how community service involvement affects the development of undergraduate self-concept. The findings from this study suggest that the quality of service involvement is more important than the amount of service performed by students. (Contains 23 references and 2 tables.)…

Draws from self-descriptions of national and community service organizations, and from service-learning history and literature, to reveal and examine underlying metaphors of service. Then describes and develops purposeful metaphors for service, which can be used to clarify service-learning's multiple meanings and facilitate reflective learning.…

If well planned, service learning can exhibit developmental stages that parallel and feed into patterns of academic growth. Students who learn through service pass through six developmental stages (the need to be needed, to know, to know more, to understand why, to know what can be changed, and to integrate action and knowledge for developing…

Since the NASSP initiatives of the 1970s, service learning activities have prospered in many schools, and mandatory community service has either been adopted or is being considered by many state and local school systems. With passage of the National and Community Service Act (1990), both service learning and full-time stipended youth service are…

Service learning can be adapted for high school students with moderate to severe disabilities. It provides benefits for students (work-related skills, self-esteem), teachers (sense of service, raised expectations), and the community organizations in which they serve (exposure to diverse populations). (SK)

Describes a program to reinforce the art-history curriculum; establish a volunteer habit; and impact students' self-esteem, communication, and leadership skills through service learning. Discusses student training and service as docents at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), and comments on the skills that they acquire through the…

The Francis Parker School in San Diego, California has a long history of unstructured service learning. The school's focus is on the whole student and the principle of individual responsibility. (SK)

Summarizes seven recent ERIC documents and six journal articles on service learning in the middle grades. Subjects of documents include descriptions of service learning in various areas and the national Indian Youth Leadership model. Topics of journal articles include descriptions of particular service-education opportunities, implementation of…

Study seeks to determine the effects of an Illinois mandate on publicly supported universities forming and promoting community service corps. Interviews were conducted with personnel at all 10 four-year public universities in Illinois. Data were gathered about the history of the programs; definitions, roles of students, faculty, student…

At the University of Missouri, A Way with Words uses work-study students as literacy tutors under an AmeriCorps grant. Service learning and critical reflection are incorporated into the program. (SK)

Surveyed college students about the quality of feedback they received at their service-learning workplace, their personal dispositions toward feedback, and the extent to which their key service learning goals were attained. Found evidence supporting the proposition that both the quality of feedback and students' dispositions to approach or avoid…

The Make a Difference model transforms community service from free labor and low-level tasks to efforts yielding genuine community improvement and enhanced academic performance. Students study the organization they work for and/or the chosen problem. California middle-school students conducted interviews, located primary sources, and created a…

Maintains that Montessori education of adolescents (Erdkinder) should prepare them to exercise a self-disciplined will and judgment. Notes the importance of preparing children through Cosmic Education and through community service. Maintains that the logical focus of study for the third plane is the cosmic plan and the adolescent's place in it.…

Recommends bringing practitioners and researchers together to strengthen future service learning research, suggesting a more empirically based approach to practice and more practical approach to research. The empirically based approach would help practitioners strengthen programs and influence the direction of research. The practice oriented…