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Service-Learning Research

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Information for Action:A Journal for Research on Service-Learning for Children and Youth

There is an emerging body of research on how service-learning works and its effects on young people's learning, schools, and communities.

Resources are divided into the following areas

  • Summaries and Briefs
  • Applying Research to Practice
  • Public Opinion Research
  • Bibliographies
  • Resource Organizations
Summaries and Briefs

"The Impacts of Service-Learning on Participating Students, March 2005." Research brief by Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D., RMC Research Corporation, Denver. Online.

"Heads, Hearts and Hands: The Research on K-12 Service-Learning." Summary of research studies that examined the effects of service-learning on participating students. By Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D., RMC Research Corporation, Denver. Published in Growing to Greatness 2004 by the National Youth Leadership Council. 14 pages.

"Using Evidence to Make the Case for Service-Learning as an Academic Achievement Intervention in K-12 Schools." Research summary by Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D., RMC Research Corporation, Denver. 3 pages.

"The Impacts of Service-Learning on Youth, Schools and Communities: Research on K-12 School-Based Service-Learning, 1990-1999." Research brief by Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D., RMC Research Corporation, Denver. Online.

"Recent Research on Service-Learning: Abstracts 2000." Sixteen abstracts with summaries of methods used and results pertaining to area of study. Based on an article by Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D., RMC Research Corporation, Denver, in Phi Delta Kappan, May 2000. From Learning in Deed. 19 pages.

The National Evaluation of Learn and Serve America Summary Report. Describes the findings of the evaluation of Learn and Serve America programs in seventeen middle schools and high schools across the country. 33 pages.

Applying Research to Practice

"A Model of School-Based K-12 Service-Learning Mediators and Student Outcomes." A visual model that connects program characteristics and service-learning activities with student outcomes. From Learning In Deed. "Research Matters," provides advice from Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D., on how to use research findings to increase high-quality service-learning practice. From the National Service-Learning Partnership's Talk It Up series. 2 pages.

Public Opinion Research

"Service-Learning Delivers What Americans Want" is a two-page summary of the "Public Attitudes Toward Education and Service-Learning" poll. From the National Service-Learning Partnership.

"Public Attitudes Toward Education and Service-Learning" details results of a poll of 1000 Americans about their views of K-12 education and service-learning. Roper Starch Worldwide conducted the poll for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2000. 33 pages.

Perceptions: Understanding and Responding to What People Think about Service-Learning describes how to address perceptions and misperceptions about service-learning in order to expand the practice. From the Learning In Deed initiative. 12 pages.

Resources

The following books emerged from past International Conferences on Service-Learning Research. These books are published as part of the Advances in Service-Learning Research series.

Service-Learning Through a Multidisciplinary Lens explores the multidisciplinary dimensions of service-learning and the implications of these dimensions for the study of service-learning. Edited by Dr. Andrew Furco and Shelley H. Billig. 2002 Order.

Deconstructing Service-Learning: Research Exploring Context, Participation, and Impacts presents service-learning research that focuses on units of analysis ranging from the individual student to the community partnership. Edited by Janet Eyler and Shelley H. Billig. 2003 Order.

Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy contains essays in three categories: theoretical issues regarding service-learning, the impacts of service-learning, and methodological approaches to studying service-learning. Edited by Dr. Andrew Furco and Dr. Shelley Billig. 2002. Order.

Bibliographies

K-12 Service-Learning Research 1991-1999. Compiled by Learning In Deed.

Resource Organizations