Enhancing Middle School Science through Community Service. Teacher Impact Evaluation Report.

The Social Science Education Consortium (SSEC) recruited and trained teachers and administrators in two cycles of four-week institutes in 1993 and 1994. The institutes were designed to train middle school educators to develop and implement integrated science, social studies, and service learning units in their classrooms. This report provides a summary of 55 in-person and telephone interviews conducted as part of the teacher impact evaluation designed to determine the effects of participation in the SSEC service-learning teacher enhancement project on teacher instruction, collaboration with colleagues and the community, and perceptions of service learning and its impacts on student learning.