FAQ Additions: Impacts and Effects of Service-Learning

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The following resources have been suggested as additions to the Impacts
and Effects of Service-Learning FAQ that was sent to the listservs
yesterday.  One of the purposes of our FAQs is to receive feedback about
valuable resources you think should be included in them, so we are
always glad to have your input.  We encourage you to keep that in mind
and respond to the listservs with your feedback when you have it.

TITLE: Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation: 1996-1998
Final Evaluation Report.
AUTHORS: Sherril Gelmon; Barbara Holladn
YEAR: 1998
PAGES: 93
AVAILABILITY: Community Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), 3333
California Street
Suite 410, San Francisco CA 94118; Phone: 415-476-7081; Fax:
415-476-4113; Email: ccph@itsa.ucsf.edu; URL:
http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html
ABSTRACT: The Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation
Program (NPSISN) was a multi-site, multi-year program designed to
explore service-learning as a tool for curricula reform within health
professions education, and as a model for effectively preparing future
professionals for work in a new health delivery system. In this
evaluation, service learning was found to be a powerful tool for
influencing student attitudes toward the role of service in their lives
as future health professionals, and was fulfilling for faculty who feel
strong motivations to link learning to meeting community needs.
Community partners valued the opportunity to shape future professionals
and to develop partnerships with university faculty, especially when the
partner was acknowledged for their contribution to the learning outcomes
of students.

TITLE: Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? Jossey-Bass Higher and
Adult Education Series.
AUTHOR: Eyler, Janet; Giles, Dwight E., Jr.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1999
PAGE: 315
AVAILABILITY: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 350 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA
94104; Tel: 888-378 2537 (Toll Free); Fax: 800-605-2665 (Toll Free); Web
site: http://www.josseybass.com ($28.95).
ABSTRACT: This book focuses on the enormous potential of service
learning to enhance the learning process for college students by melding
cognitive learning and affective service. Conclusions are based
primarily on data from two national research projects, one which
compared models of service learning using survey data and intensive
student interviews, and the other, a project which examined students'
experience in service-learning through in-depth interviews with 67
students at seven institutions. Chapter 1 is an overview of the book's
main themes and outlines how service-learning helps students achieve
important outcomes of a college education. Chapters 2 through 7 show how
service-learning can develop these outcomes, which are: personal and
interpersonal development; understanding and applying knowledge;
engagement, curiosity, and reflective practice; critical thinking;
perspective transformation; and citizenship. Chapter 8 examines program
characteristics and summarizes the impact of key program characteristics
on the outcomes identified earlier. Implications for practice are
discussed in chapter 9. Appendixes include a list of study participants,
the study methodology, survey and interview instruments, and survey
regression tables. (Contains approximately 175 references.) (DB)


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Andrea Roufs
Information Specialist
Learn and Serve America
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
1-800-808-7378
http://umn.edu/~serve