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Service-Learning Research

• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education AACTE Best Practice Awards
• “Assessing Service-Learning: Results from a survey of "Learn and Serve America, Higher Education" in Change; New Rochelle; Mar/Apr 2000; Maryann J Gray; Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje; Ronald D Fricker Jr; Sandy A Geschwind. ( Search for "assessing service-learning." You have to pay for the full article, but you can view the abstract for free.) (Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning)
• Assessment, Evaluation, and Performance Measurement: Selected Resources (National Service-Learning Clearinghouse)
• "At A Glance: What We Know about The Effects of Service-Learning on College Students, Faculty, Institutions and Communities, 1993-2000: Third Edition"
• "Best Practices For Reflection" University of Scranton
• "Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, 2006-2009." This new eight-page project brief describes service learning initiatives and highlights at 12 community colleges participating in AACC's current Horizons grant program. (American Association of Community Colleges)
• Hot Topic: Evaluation & Assessment (National Service-Learning Clearinghouse)
• "Impact of Service-Learning and Social Justice Education on College Students’ Cognitive Development" by Yan Wang and Robert Rodgers (2006) in the NASPA Journal.
• "The Impact of Service-Learning on Student Achievement: A Statewide Study of Michigan Learn and Serve Grantees 2004 Research Brief"
• "The Impacts of Service-Learning on Youth, Schools and Communities: Research on K-12 School-Based Service-Learning, 1990-1999" (Learning In Deed)
• "In Search of Evidence - Measuring Community Engagement and Higher Education" (Eidos)
• Jefferson College Center for Teaching and Learning "Theory to Practice"
• Maryland’s Best Practices: An Improvement Guide for School-Based Service-Learning (Maryland Student Service Alliance)
• "Principles of Good Practice for Combining Service and Learning" (A Wingspread Special Report)
• "The Service Learning Component in Business Education: The Values Linkage Void" (Academy of Management Learning & Education)
• Teacher Reference Center - This database indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more. This resource is a useful tool for anyone doing research on service-learning, civic engagement in the classroom, or evaluation and assessment, to name a few.
• Reflection in Service-Learning: Selected Resources highlights resources for practitioners and researchers interested in reflection.
• The Research Capacity Hub provides resources and tools that enable scholars to conduct rigorous research on service-learning and to further advance the knowledge of good practice.
• "Resource Guide for Staff and Faculty Working in Support of Engaged Students" (Raise Your Voice: Student Action For Change)
• "Understanding the Effects of Service Learning: A Study of Students and Faculty" A series of reports, including: How Service Learning Affects Students (2000), The Lasting Impact of College on Young Adults’ Civic and Political Engagement (2005); Comparing the Effects of Community Service and Service-Learning (2000); The Long-Term Effects of Volunteerism During the Undergraduate Years (1999); and How Undergraduates are Affected by Service Participation (1998). ( Higher Ed Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA)