Evaluation Report of Student Attitude and Behavior Changes to the Tennessee Department of Education and Volunteer Tennessee on the Learn and Serve America School-Based Program: Student Data Sets from 2007-2008, Year 2 of the Learn and Serve Project

The 2007-08 School-based Learn and Serve grant was implemented by the Tennessee Department of Education in collaboration with Volunteer Tennessee. Twenty-one sub-grantees from public schools across the state were selected to provide high quality service-learning projects, incorporating student voice and student planning, requiring no less than 30 hours per semester, and integrating service-learning within the academic curriculum. The sub-grantees achieved the following goals: (1) during the 2007-2008 grant year 3,482 students engaged in service-learning programs, and 2) through service-learning participation, students were reconnected to their schools and communities and gave 102,045 of hours of service to their Tennessee communities while developing academic skills and knowledge. In the grant proposal for this project, the primary intermediate outcomes were projected for attitudinal changes related to student resiliency and problem-solving. Improvements in student attitudes were expected to build over the three-year grant, as teachers trained in the Lions-Quest Skills for Action program developed mastery of how to use the program and learned ways to incorporate service-learning projects and tasks to academic subject areas. (author)