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Lake, Vickie E.; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Guidry, Lisa – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2010
This exploratory study examined the impact of tutoring programs on preservice teachers (PSTs) and tutees. The PSTs are assigned to either the Tutor-Assisted Intensive Learning Strategies (TAILS) or Book Partners (BP) service-learning tutoring program and work with identified kindergarten or first-grade struggling readers. Three questions are…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Strategies, Service Learning
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Williams, Rhonda L.; Ferber, Abby L. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2008
This article discusses an innovative program, Smart-Girl, developed in collaboration among feminist scholars, educators, and business women concerned with intervening in and improving the lives of adolescent girls in their community. This program is unique not only in its success, but also in the social and emotional impact it has had on the high…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Service Learning, Teaching Methods
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Mayhew, Jack – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Evaluates the outcomes of the service-learning component in two undergraduate courses in which some students identified their own service-learning sites and others chose one of three pre-arranged sites. Concludes that all students experienced a greater understanding of the course content and their roles as citizens, but students who arranged their…
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Assessment, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Romack, Jennifer L. – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Describes the attempts by one faculty member to assess the impact of service learning on student learning in a motor development class. Concludes that service learning has powerful effects on student engagement, but that faculty have to find new ways to properly assess those outcomes. (Contains 16 references.) (CAK)
Descriptors: Colleges, Exercise Physiology, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Karayan, Silva; Gathercoal, Paul – Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2003
Reviews a series of service-learning programs implemented over a four-year period by special education teachers enrolled at California Lutheran University's preservice graduate program. Finds that an increasing number of these programs involved students with special needs in the service learning projects. These "reciprocal empowerment"…
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Assessment, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Cunningham, David; Kingma-Kiekhofer, Cheryl – Teaching Sociology, 2004
This article introduces an approach to service learning based on students' collective engagement with a range of community organizations. We explore the particular benefits of this comparative collective community-based (CCC) learning model through a discussion of the "Possibilities for Change in American Communities" program, which was begun by…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Service Learning, Comparative Analysis, Community Organizations