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Assessing civic engagement / Dawn Geronimo Terkla, Lisa S. O'Leary, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New directions for institutional research ; no. 162.
- New directions for institutional research
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community and college--United States.
- Community and college.
- United States.
- Service learning--United States.
- Service learning.
- Student volunteers in social service--United States.
- Student volunteers in social service.
- Physical Description:
- 103 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2014]
- Summary:
- How does one assess community service, civic engagement, and the impact of service learning on a college campus? How does one measure this somewhat elusive phenomenon that is defined in many different ways? This can be discussed within the framework of the seemingly reciprocal relationship between campus environment and civic engagement outcomes. This volume reviews contemporary research, measurement instruments, and practices in the assessment of civic engagement in higher education, including: meta-analyses of students, faculty, institutions, and higher education systems at-large, targeted case studies of campus-specific practices at individual institutions, efficient and effective ways to gauge the influence of civic engagement on higher education policy, practices, and outcomes, and quantitative and qualitative approaches to measuring the effort, importance of, and impact of students' and institutions' involvement in community service, community engagement, civic engagement, and service learning on a college campus. The research ranges between decisions made either as part of institutional agendas, curricular enhancements, or student life initiatives and student and professor involvement in civic engagement activities and supportive attitudes. This will be of interest to faculty, administrators, student affairs professionals, and other staff involved with curricular and cocurricular programs. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Analysis of the Carnegie Classification of Community Engagement: patterns and impact on institutions / Amy Driscoll
- Frequent participation in service learning: examining institutional differences and individual benefits / Daniel A. Bureau, James S. Cole, Alexander C. McCormick
- Do college youth serve others? How and under which circumstances?: implications for promoting community service / James Griffith, Todd Thomas
- The impact of the campus culture on students' civic activities, values, and beliefs / Meredith S. Billings, Dawn Geronimo Terkla
- Civic engagement in college students: connections between involvement and attitudes / Lisa S. O'Leary
- Creating an organizational framework for assessment of student engagement / Paul B. Duby, Charles F. Ganzert, David L. Bonsall
- Alternative spring break at the Savannah College of Art and Design: engaging art and design students in community service / J. Joseph Hoey, Jeffrey A. Feld-Gore
- Assessing civic engagement at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis / Gary R. Pike, Robert G. Bringle, Julie A. Hatcher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781119065050
- 1119065054
- OCLC:
- 895728400
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