National Evaluation of Learn and Serve America School and Community-Based Programs: Interim Report and Appendices

This document is a preliminary one to a report that appeared in its final form in 1998: National Evaluation of Learn and Serve America School and Community-Based Programs: Final Report. Includes the research methodology used to collect and measure data for the study. The report presents the findings from a 1994-1997 evaluation of the National Learn and Serve America program by the Brandeis University's Center for Human Resources and Abt Associates Inc. The evaluation addresses the following questions: What is the impact of program participation on program participants? What are the institutional impacts on participating schools and community organizations? What impacts do Learn and Serve programs have on their communities? What is the return on the Learn and Serve investment? Appendices contents: Site Selection Sampling Strategy / Analysis Sample and Impact Estimation Method / Definitions of Scales and Other Outcome Measures / Participant Impact Tables / Subgroup Impact Tables / Baseline and Post-Program Student Survey Forms.