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.
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 is the 162nd volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report
series. Timely and comprehensive, New Directions for
Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in
all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as
resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation,
and institutional management.
Author Biography
Volume Editors:
Dawn Geronimo Terkla is the associate provost of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Evaluation at Tufts University. Lisa S. O'Leary is a Psychometrician II with Alpine Testing Solutions, Inc.
Series Editor-in-Chief:
John F. Ryan is director of institutional research at University of Vermont.