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The 2009-2012 Illinois Learn and Serve grant program provides funding for service-learning programs to local education agencies, regional offices of education, intermediate service centers, special education cooperatives, regional career and technical education programs, charter schools, and public university laboratory schools approved by the Illinois State Board of Education. The goal of the Illinois Learn and Serve program is to promote student academic engagement as a means to increase student attendance, improve academic performance, and reduce school dropout rates.
In 2009-2010, RMC Research Corporation conducted an evaluation of the Illinois Learn and Serve program to determine impact of participation on students' academic engagement, attachment to school, performance and acquisition of 21st century skills, civic dispositions, and social-emotional learning. During Year 1 of the program, approximately 51 schools representing 17 districts/subgrantees participated in service-learning evaluation activities.
This report presents results of the analysis of data collected from participants during the 2009-2010 school year. Retrospective post-only surveys were completed by 1,786 service-learning students in Grades 3-12. Seventy-three service-learning teachers and 49 community partners completed post-only surveys. Analysis of student achievement, attendance, discipline referral, and dropout rate data will be represented as an Addendum to this report when the data becomes available.
