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Description of  Assessing Civic Engagement: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 162 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)

1119065054 pdf How does one assess community service, civic engagement, and the impact of service learning on a college campus? 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. Read more