Challenges in Assessing Service-Learning

Service-learning as pedagogy offers multiple perspectives from which assessment can be conducted, and provides a rich opportunity for comprehensive and value-added assessment. Development of a comprehensive research agenda to build knowledge about service-learning assessment and refine concepts of best practices for assessment will provide the evidence needed to further develop and implement programs and pedagogies that fulfill the missions and expectations of service-learning. This article was published in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Special Issue Fall 2000, pages 84-90.