Teaching and Learning in the Social Context: A Meta-Analysis of Service Learning's Effects on Academic, Personal, Social, and Citizenship Outcomes
By J. Conway, Elise L. Amel, Daniel P. Gerwien. 2009
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Service learning places teaching and learning in a social context, facilitating socially responsive knowledge. The purposes of this meta-analysis were to summarize evidence on (a) extent and types of change in participants in service learning programs, (b) specific program elements (moderators) that affect the amount of change in participants, and (c) generalizability of results across educational levels and curricular versus noncurricular service. We included 103 samples and found positive changes for all types of outcomes. Changes were moderate for academic outcomes, small for personal outcomes and citizenship outcomes, and in between for social outcomes. Programs with structured reflection showed larger changes and effects generalized across educational levels. We call for psychologists to increase their use of service learning, and we discuss resources for doing so.
Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Safety Research
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In Education
- J. Durlak
- L. Gutman
- Allison B. Dymnicki
- I. Schoon
- Feifei Ye
- R. Rolland
- Christopher Murray
- R. Weissberg
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Citations in the corpus
- The impact of non-cognitive skills on outcomes for young people. A literature review. (2013, background): “The effects of service-learning were enhanced when the service-learning included a reflection component, or when faculty integrate the service-learning experience into class discussion (Conway et al., 2009).”
- A Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Service-Learning on the Social, Personal, and Cognitive Outcomes of Learning (2012, background): “There has been at least one previous effort toward quantitative synthesis on the subject (e.g., Conway, Amel, & Gerwien, 2009).”
- A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Service-Learning on Students (2011, background): “Several research studies suggest that student participation in SL is associated with positive outcomes in five areas: attitudes toward self, attitudes toward school and learning, civic engagement, social skills, and academic achievement (e.g., Billig, 2009; Conway et al., 2009; White, 2001).”