Publisher:Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Citation:Samuelson, B. L., Smith, R. T., Stevenson, E., & Ryan, C. (2013). A case study of youth participatory evaluation in co-curricular service learning. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 13(3), 63-81.
Abstract: This paper examines the practice of participatory evaluation through an
exploratory single case study of the Evaluation Team of Books & Beyond, a cocurricular
service-learning program of the Global Village Living-Learning
Center at Indiana University. The paper, which is authored by three
undergraduate members of the evaluation team and their faculty advisor,
juxtaposes the process of conducting the evaluation and reporting the results with
reflections from the Evaluation Team participants on conducting youth
participatory action research, which offers a means of improving youth-serving
programs and developing a greater understanding of why youth choose to
participate in these programs. In their review of the implementation of their
evaluation project, the team noted that the difficulties of getting past lessons
learned to methodological rigor in service-learning evaluation are compounded
by the realities of engaging in a student-faculty partnership in a co-curricular
service-learning context.