Service-Learning: Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes in a College-Level Lecture Course

This article reports on the effects of infusing a 20-hour per semester service-learning requirement into a large Introductory Child Development course. Analyses of student outcomes on course assignments revealed that the 166 students in the service-learning cohorts (2 classes) out-performed the 309 students who took the course during the three semesters prior to the introduction of the service-learning requirement. It is published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, v. 7, Fall 2000, pp. 5-13.