Cocurricular Assessment: Aligning Service-Learning With General Education Goals
Background/purpose – Cocurricular offerings should appropriately align with academic learning goals to ensure undergraduate students’ development of professional dispositions that lead to civic and career success. This study provides a framework for implementing high impact practices into cocurricul...
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| author | Ruth Boyd, G. Allen Boyd, Taler Alexander |
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| description | Background/purpose – Cocurricular offerings should appropriately align with academic learning goals to ensure undergraduate students’ development of professional dispositions that lead to civic and career success. This study provides a framework for implementing high impact practices into cocurricular instruction, as well as steps on how to align this instruction to the general educational goals of institutions.
Materials/methods – Case study methodology was used to examine university students’ perceptions of the effect a course-embedded service-learning activity had on their development of professional dispositions.
Results – University students reported a perceived positive impact of the service-learning activity on their attainment of general education goals. Specifically, they reported positive growth in collaboration skills, community connections, and an understanding of the relevance of these skills as professional dispositions.
Conclusion – Leveraging high-impact practices such as service-learning and the first-year experience course to meet the general education goals of an institution is an effective use of cocurricular curriculum design. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fa7f9cc308664184af01f6f8a8ee3a9f2024-12-03T20:43:32ZengÜNİVERSİTEPARK LimitedEducational Process: International Journal2147-09012022-09-0111310.22521/edupij.2022.113.5Cocurricular Assessment: Aligning Service-Learning With General Education GoalsRuth Boyd, G. Allen Boyd, Taler Alexanderhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9483-3737Background/purpose – Cocurricular offerings should appropriately align with academic learning goals to ensure undergraduate students’ development of professional dispositions that lead to civic and career success. This study provides a framework for implementing high impact practices into cocurricular instruction, as well as steps on how to align this instruction to the general educational goals of institutions. Materials/methods – Case study methodology was used to examine university students’ perceptions of the effect a course-embedded service-learning activity had on their development of professional dispositions. Results – University students reported a perceived positive impact of the service-learning activity on their attainment of general education goals. Specifically, they reported positive growth in collaboration skills, community connections, and an understanding of the relevance of these skills as professional dispositions. Conclusion – Leveraging high-impact practices such as service-learning and the first-year experience course to meet the general education goals of an institution is an effective use of cocurricular curriculum design.https://www.edupij.com/files/1/articles/article_265/EDUPIJ_265_article_63440c8126adf.pdfcocurricular assessmentservice-learningfirst-year experience course |
| spellingShingle | Ruth Boyd, G. Allen Boyd, Taler Alexander Cocurricular Assessment: Aligning Service-Learning With General Education Goals Educational Process: International Journal cocurricular assessment service-learning first-year experience course |
| title | Cocurricular Assessment: Aligning Service-Learning With General Education Goals |
| title_full | Cocurricular Assessment: Aligning Service-Learning With General Education Goals |
| title_fullStr | Cocurricular Assessment: Aligning Service-Learning With General Education Goals |
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| title_short | Cocurricular Assessment: Aligning Service-Learning With General Education Goals |
| title_sort | cocurricular assessment aligning service learning with general education goals |
| topic | cocurricular assessment service-learning first-year experience course |
| url | https://www.edupij.com/files/1/articles/article_265/EDUPIJ_265_article_63440c8126adf.pdf |
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