Service learning

Overview

Influence: Service learning
Domain: Technology, School, and Out-of-School Strategies
Sub-Domain: Out-of-school
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
Influence Definition: A teaching strategy that combines learning from classroom instruction with applications to solving real world problems through action and thoughtful reflection, aimed to benefit both the community and the learner. Students engage in community service activities and apply the experience to personal and academic development.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 8
Number of studies: 157
Number of students: 18,391
Number of effects: 118
Weighted mean effect size: 0.53
Robustness index: 3

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Teaching of Psychology	Conway, Amel, & Gerwein	USA	Teaching and learning in the social context: A meta-analysis of service learning's effects on academic, personal, social, and citizenship outcomes.	2009	Service learning	19	1,193	19	0.43
Journal of Experiential Education	Celio, Durlak & Dymnicki	USA	A meta-analysis of the impact of service-learning on students	2011	Service learning	62	11,837	17	0.43
Dissertation	White	USA	A Meta-Analysis of Service Learning Research in Middle and High Schools	2001	Service programs on academic progress	9	0	9	0.87
Academy of Management Learning and Education	Yorio & Ye	USA	A Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Service-Learning on the Social, Personal, and Cognitive Outcomes of Learning	2011	Service programs on academic progress	19	2,891	25	0.53
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning	Warren	USA	Does Service-Learning Increase Student Learning?: A Meta-Analysis	2012	Service programs on academic progress	11	2,129	11	0.33
Korea National University of Education Research Institute	Lee	Korea	A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of service learning	2018	Service learning	21	0	21	0.69
Campbell Systematic Reviews	Filges & Dietrichson, Viinholt, & Dalgaard	Denmark	Service learning for improving academic success in students in grade K to 12: a systematic review.	2020	Service learning	5	0	5	0.14
Revista Española de Pedagogía	Bonastre, Camilli, Garcia-Gil, & Cuervo	Spain	Implicaciones educativas y sociales del Aprendizaje-Servicio con métodos mixtos a través de un meta-análisis.	2021	Service learning	11	341	11	1.07
TOTAL/AVERAGE						157	18,391	118	0.56