Assessing Civic Engagement
| Author/creator | IR Author |
| Other author | Pike, Gary R. Author |
| Other author | Terkla, Dawn Geronimo Author |
| Other author | O'Leary, Lisa S. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Jossey-Bass [Imprint] Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated |
| Description | 112 p. 22.990 x 014.990 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation <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>metaanalyses of students, faculty, institutions, and higher education systems atlarge,</li><li>targeted case studies of campusspecific 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 JosseyBass 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> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781119065050 |
| ISBN | 1119065054 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781119065050 |
| Stock number | 00028608 |
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