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SERVICE LEARNING IN UNIVERSITY CLASSROOMS
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2006
Abstract
The objective of this study was to demonstrate the benefit of service learning (SL) within specific curricula. Participants were 179 (121 female, 52 male, and 6 not indicated) undergraduate students enrolled in Organizational Behavior, Psychology of Workforce Diversity, and Psychology of Addictions classes at a Southeastern public university. The mean age of participants was 24.20 years (SD = 5.99). ANOVAs were conducted to test between-group differences on the posttest-only scores of the Stevens and Campion (1999) Teamwork KSAs test (a measure of team-related knowledge, skills, and abilities) and the Wang et al. (2003) Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE; a self-report scale of the empathy an individual feels toward those of different ethnic and racial backgrounds). Finally, ANCOVAs were conducted to test differences between pretest and posttest scores. Results indicate that students in classrooms with a SL component scored significantly higher on teamwork KSAs than students in the other classes. SEE scores did not always reach statistical significance; however, mean differences always favored those students in the SL courses.
Details
- Title
- SERVICE LEARNING IN UNIVERSITY CLASSROOMS
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Identifiers
- 99380090742206600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida