Pedagogy National studies validate the claims that service-learning improves academic achievement across a wide variety of disciplines. Service connected to specific courses can enhance the learning of the course content. Service-learning has impact on students' personal, social and cognitive outcomes. Furthermore, service-learning enhances students' beliefs in their personal efficacy, and can be a predictor in their further professional development. Of course, the very idea of service suggests that not all the benefits of service-learning are reaped by faculty and students.
Community service addresses a vast variety of social problems.
Community service creates and strengthens connections between people, and serves the needs of the community as a whole. Service-learning can be an important part of a student's civic education, influencing such characteristics as political action skills, communication skills, critical thinking skills and tolerance. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysi s 15, 410-419. The impact of a college community service laboratory on students' personal, social and cognitive outcomes. Check out the Contact Information page.