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Library Resources by Series: "AACC Research Brief"
Total number of Library Resources: 6
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A 16-page research brief summarizing the findings and implications of a three-year study of service learning's impact on student learning outcomes at 10 community colleges. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) measured learning outcomes attainment for students at grantee colleges. AACC defines service learning as combining community service with academic instruction, focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal and...
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Most of the limited research on service learning's ties to civic engagement has been done in primary and secondary school settings. It has been unclear whether there is a connection to civic engagement at the community college level. Discovering such a connection may allow service learning coordinators and faculty to foster greater awareness of how students, learning the curriculum through local service learning placements, can also become...
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In 2004 the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) supported a study to identify factors that motivate faculty to include service learning in their courses. Exploring the motivational factors of faculty enhances the understanding of the academic profession by clarifying the reasons why faculty change their teaching to include service learning in their courses. This study provides data and statistics regarding the motivational...
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The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) conducted a survey in 2003 to gauge the level of service learning involvement in community colleges across the nation. This research brief summarizes the findings from that survey and reveals a snapshot of institutional and programmatic involvement during a time of state budget shortfalls and significant cutbacks in education programs. The 2003 survey included many of the same questions asked...
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This research brief analyzes the institutionalization of service-learning programs in 90 community colleges. In 1994 and again in 1997, AACC selected groups of institutions, known as Horizons colleges, to work together in collaborative mentoring relationships to build campus-based service-learning programs. While the number of service-learning programs at community colleges has grown significantly in the past 5 years, not all of those programs...
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To determine the level of involvement in service learning among community colleges, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) conducted a national survey of over 1,100 colleges in spring 1995. The following institutional and program profile, based on responses from 773 institutions, emerged from the survey: (1) four out of five community colleges indicated that they were interested in service-learning; (2) 75% of the respondents...
