1. To Improve Student Achievement, Start with Service
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-culbertson/to-improve-student-achiev_b_1833342.html
2. Service-Learning/Community Service as a Strategy for Fostering Student Outcomes
http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/mbquest3RTE?Rep=SL1303
3. Benefits of Student Participation in Community Service
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.black/benefits_of_participation_in_service
4. Reducing Academic Achievement Gaps: The Role of Community Service and Service-Learning
http://christyhiett.wiki.westga.edu/file/view/Reducing+academic+achievement+gaps.pdf
5. Service-Learning and Academic Success: The Links to Retention Research
http://www.compact.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/downloads/MN-SL_and_academic_success.pdf
Highlights of Research
Service learning is a structured approach to integrating service into the curriculum. Students apply subject matter to develop plans and partnerships that meet the needs of others. Experiencing a service-learning approach within an academic class becomes a critical and essential process for students. Having this experience, particularly when the service-learning process is made explicit, provides a reliable model for students to use for taking more independent initiative with an idea for service and develops self-efficacy skills. Guided or classroom learning that leads to action addressing a community need is most meaningful when it allows students to incorporate their own interests, skills and talents. Classrooms and schools which combine service learning with the intentional process of instruction have successfully increased student retention, student engagement, and an elevation in test scores.
The benefits to students include but are not limited to: students become more aware of their own strengths and areas for growth; students undertake challenges that develop new skills; students discuss, evaluate and plan and initiate their own activities which causes learning to be personalized and differentiated based on student interest; students learn to persevere in action and develop the intrinsic quality of "grit"; students learn to work collaboratively with others in real life situations; students develop intercultural understanding ; students consider the ethical implications of their actions on the world around them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-culbertson/to-improve-student-achiev_b_1833342.html
2. Service-Learning/Community Service as a Strategy for Fostering Student Outcomes
http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/mbquest3RTE?Rep=SL1303
3. Benefits of Student Participation in Community Service
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.black/benefits_of_participation_in_service
4. Reducing Academic Achievement Gaps: The Role of Community Service and Service-Learning
http://christyhiett.wiki.westga.edu/file/view/Reducing+academic+achievement+gaps.pdf
5. Service-Learning and Academic Success: The Links to Retention Research
http://www.compact.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/downloads/MN-SL_and_academic_success.pdf
Highlights of Research
Service learning is a structured approach to integrating service into the curriculum. Students apply subject matter to develop plans and partnerships that meet the needs of others. Experiencing a service-learning approach within an academic class becomes a critical and essential process for students. Having this experience, particularly when the service-learning process is made explicit, provides a reliable model for students to use for taking more independent initiative with an idea for service and develops self-efficacy skills. Guided or classroom learning that leads to action addressing a community need is most meaningful when it allows students to incorporate their own interests, skills and talents. Classrooms and schools which combine service learning with the intentional process of instruction have successfully increased student retention, student engagement, and an elevation in test scores.
The benefits to students include but are not limited to: students become more aware of their own strengths and areas for growth; students undertake challenges that develop new skills; students discuss, evaluate and plan and initiate their own activities which causes learning to be personalized and differentiated based on student interest; students learn to persevere in action and develop the intrinsic quality of "grit"; students learn to work collaboratively with others in real life situations; students develop intercultural understanding ; students consider the ethical implications of their actions on the world around them.