Assessing the Impact of Community Engagement

Assessment, community engagement, impact

Are we assessing all of the important outcomes when students work with the community (in service learning or business projects)? How do we assess? What do we assess? How can we improve our assessment?

In this session we will share our own approaches to assessing student community engagement in service-learning, internship, and practicum project experiences. We explore how we might intentionally measure the impact of these experiences in a way that can be included in accreditation and assessment reporting. We will also solicit ideas from the group about their own best practices and develop a resource for assessment.

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