Evaluation and Assessment in Service-Learning

A resource for those involved in service-learning who want to improve both their programs and their awareness of the far-reaching as well as the immediate impacts their programs have. This compilation includes both the why and the how of assessing service-learning programs and impacts, including student pre and post tests, surveys, and resources. Essays include: What are We Trying to Evaluate in the Name of Service?; How are We Doing? Or What Good is Evaluation Anyway? Observations from a Service-Learning Consortium; Service-Learning Program Assessment: Quality Assurance and Survival; Service-Learning Evaluation: The Mesa Community College Experience; The WIN, WIN, WIN Relationship; The Compassion Connection: The Integration And Assessment of Service-Learning Within A Learning Community; Once is Not Enough: Assessing Service-Learning; Participatory Evaluation for Tutors and Learners; and Counting With Care: Assessing Dimensions of Community Development Focused Service-Learning.