Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

This document is meant to be a "how-to guide" for high-quality service-learning. The field of service-learning has grown substantially over the past decade and many excellent resources are now available for teachers, administrators, community members and students that describe not only the "how" of service-learning but ideas for "the what."

Learn and Serve Colorado contracted with the Evaluation Center to provide external evaluation services beginning Fall 2006. The evaluation study encompassed the period from November 2006 to August 2007. Previous studies raised questions about the quality of the service learning occurring at sampled schools. In order to make connections between student outcomes and service learning, a measure of the quality of the service learning experience is necessary....