Developing a Faculty Inventory Measuring Perceived Service-Learning Benefits and Barriers

 The purpose of this study was to develop a Web-based Faculty Service-Learning Beliefs Inventory (wFSLBI) assessing faculty members' views of the benefits and barriers involved with service-learning (SL) pedagogy. Analyses of the responses of 362 faculty members showed that Inventory items loaded consistently on four sub-scales: perceived benefits at classroom (PROC_CLS) and community levels (PROS_COM), and perceived barriers at classroom (CONS_CLS) and institutional levels (CONS_INST). The wFSLBI showed satisfactory reliability and validity among faculty groups with and without SL experience. The wFSLBI will be useful in assessing and understanding salient beliefs motivating or discouraging faculty involvement in SL.