Assessing Civic Learning Outcomes (poster 18)
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Walsh, Dan
Bautista, Vicki
Minnich, Margo
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2019-10-25
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en_US
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BACKGROUND|As defined by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Curricular Engagement (also known as academic service-learning) describes the teaching, learning, and scholarship that engages faculty, students, and community in mutually beneficial and respectful collaboration. Their interactions address community-identified needs, deepen students' civic and academic learning, enhance community well-being, and enrich the scholarship of the institution. The OASL began assessing student learning outcomes as a result of this high impact pedagogy (AAC&U, 2008) in AY17-18. The following learning outcomes specific to academic service-learning (AcSL) courses were measured:|1.Integrate learning of disciplinary knowledge, gained through classroom exercises, with experiential knowledge, gained through direct contact with the everyday problems of real people|2.Encounter, serve, and form relationships through structured opportunities with individuals and communities that might otherwise remain outside their personal experience|3.Develop skills of critical thinking and reflection about self, moral values, and social reality, within the institutional context of commitment to diversity, social justice, and the common good|4.Foster the habit of community building and responsible citizenship
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Creighton University, Teaching and Learning Center