ERIC Number: EJ1150581
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 18
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Service-Learning and Graduation: Evidence from Event History Analysis
Yue, Hongtao; Hart, Steven M.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v23 n2 p24-41 Spr 2017
This research employed Event History Analysis to understand how service-learning participation is related to students' graduation within six years. The longitudinal dataset includes 31,074 new undergraduate students who enrolled in a large western U.S. public university from Fall 2002 to Fall 2009. The study revealed that service-learning participation had a significant positive relationship with graduation for both first-time freshmen and new undergraduate transfers. Furthermore, participation in upper division service-learning courses had larger correlations with graduation than participating in lower division service-learning courses, and service-learning participation had larger correlations with graduation for new undergraduate transfers than for first-time freshmen.
Descriptors: Service Learning, Graduation Rate, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation, College Freshmen, College Transfer Students, Student Records, Statistical Analysis
Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan. 1024 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3310. Tel: 734-647-7402; Fax: 734-647-7464; Web site: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mjcsl
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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