ERIC Number: EJ938575
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
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Service Learning and Civic Responsibility: Assessing Aggregate and Individual Level Change
Brandes, Kendra; Randall, Kevin
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, v23 n1 p20-29 2011
This study sought to expand the extant literature regarding the effectiveness of a higher education service-learning project designed to increase students' civic and socially responsive knowledge and intentions. A class with a semester long service-learning component was administered a pre- and post-test assessment using multi-item scales to determine if a student's sense of civic responsibility would increase. Our hypothesis predicting overall mean or aggregate change in civic responsibility was not affirmed by the paired t-tests or analysis of covariance tests. However, using growth curve modeling, we investigated between-individual differences in within-individual change. The study's results demonstrated that significant variation in individual differences between time one and time two did exist. Particularly noteworthy was the finding that previous service-learning experience, outside the classroom setting, predicted the level of civic attitudes and predicted the level and change of civic action. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Service Learning, Citizenship Responsibility, Learning Experience, Pretests Posttests, Social Change, Consumer Science, Attitude Measures, Attitude Change, Predictor Variables, Program Effectiveness, Intention, Social Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Individual Differences
International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning. Web site: http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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