Assessing Civic Engagement

<p>How does one assess community service, civic engagement, and the impact of service learning on a college campus? This volume reviews contemporary research, measurement instruments, and practices in the assessment of civic engagement in higher education, including:</p> <ul> <li>meta-analyses of students, faculty, institutions, and higher education systems at-large,</li> <li>targeted case studies of campus-specific practices at individual institutions,</li> <li>efficient and effective ways to gauge the influence of civic engagement on higher education policy, practices, and outcomes, and</li> <li>quantitative and qualitative approaches to measuring the effort, importance of, and impact of students’ and institutions’ involvement in community service, community engagement, civic engagement, and service learning on a college campus.</li> </ul> <p>The research ranges between decisions made either as part of institutional agendas, curricular enhancements, or student life initiatives and student and professor involvement in civic engagement activities and supportive attitudes.   </p> <p>This is the 162nd volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Timely and comprehensive, <b>New Directions for Institutional Research</b> provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.</p>