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Assessment

The process of gathering information in order to make an evaluation. An evaluation is a decision or judgment about whether an effort is successful and to what extent that effort has or has not met a goal. Evaluation of effects of service-learning on students who take classes that employ service-learning as a pedagogy, on the community partner or agency that delivers services students assists with, on faculty members who teach those courses, and on the institution under whose auspices service-learning courses are offered. Assessment may be descriptive or evaluative; involve conventional Likert-type items or narrative reports; and be directed toward above-named stakeholders.

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