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Service-Learning and Assessment: A Field Guide For Teachers

A comprehensive guide for teachers on assessing service-learning. The following topics are covered: planning for assessment, rubrics for looking at student products, KWLs and Anchor tasks, inviting students into the process, how service-learning can demonstrate standards, and planning and reflection tools. The guide is divided into 8 parts.
Citation: National Service-Learning and Assessment Study Group. (1999). Service-learning and Assessment: A Field Guide for Teachers. Washington, D.C.: Learn and Serve America.

  * Chapter 1 & 2: Introduction to Service-Learning, Assessment, and the National Study Group and Recurring Issues with Assessment of Learning Through Service (216K pdf)
   
  * Chapter 3: Planning Service-Learning Classroom Assessments: A District of Columbia Case Study (109K pdf)
   
  * Chapter 4: Using Rubrics to Assess Learning through Service in Maine (415K pdf)
   
  * Chapter 5: KWLs and Anchor Tasks: Assessing the Dimensions of Student Learning through Service (165K pdf)
   
  * Chapter 6: Invitation to Learn: Involving Students in the Assessment Process (672K pdf)
   
  * Chapter 7: What's for Lunch? How Does Food Affect You and the World?: A Service-Learning Inquiry Model (379K pdf)
   
  * Chapter 8: Improving Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire through Effective Assessment of Service Learning (446K pdf)
   
  * Chapter 9: Reflections on the Study Group Process (46K pdf)
   
 
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