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Publication Date: 2014
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Engaging College Students on a Community Engagement with High School Students with Disabilities
Lawler, James; Joseph, Anthony; Narula, Stuti
Contemporary Issues in Education Research, v7 n3 p195-204 2014
Community engagement is a common course in college curricula of computer science and information systems. In this study, the authors analyze the benefits of digital storytelling, in a course engaging college students with high school students with disabilities. The authors discover that a project of storytelling progressively enables high engagement of the students, in importance, performance, and satisfaction. The authors also discover that the project enables progressively high impact in the advocacy of these students for individuals with disabilities, in self-efficacy and sociality. The study will benefit instructors in any discipline evaluating digital storytelling technology as a service-learning tool.
Descriptors: College Students, High School Students, Disabilities, College School Cooperation, Story Telling, Learner Engagement, Advocacy, Self Efficacy, Socialization, Service Learning, Educational Technology, Visual Stimuli, Check Lists, Student Surveys, Journal Writing, Student Attitudes, Likert Scales, Program Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York
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