scholarly journals Development of a Required Service-Learning Course: Lessons Learned and Stakeholders’ Perceptions

10.29007/hjb7 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren W. Redden ◽  
Robert A. Bugg
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Knowledge Gain ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Curriculum Revision ◽  
Perceived Knowledge ◽  
Required Service

There is a growing movement for universities to include high-impact educational practices. This study explores the implementation and efficacy of one such practice in a construction management undergraduate program. During a recent curriculum revision, faculty decided to include a required service-learning course in the curriculum to enhance both student learning and civic engagement. The course assimilates all components of the construction process. Key assessments of the course include: written proposal & preconstruction presentation to the owner, project update reports, a mid-semester site inspection, and a final presentation accompanied by a written reflection. Students and owners voluntarily completed surveys at the end of the semester to determine the elements requiring improvement, elements that should remain unchanged, and the perceived knowledge gain through the experience. The results indicate the project owners were satisfied and the students acknowledged learning benefits. Owners, students and faculty all noted major challenges/frustrations with the course and the need for improvement. The paper summarizes the data to evaluate the efficacy of the required course and highlights lessons learned to improve the course. Dissemination of the results may be useful in starting or improving service-learning courses at other institutions.

scholarly journals Civic Engagement in the Online Classroom: Increasing Youth Political Engagement in an Online American Government Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-68
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Discussion Board ◽  
American Government ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Current Events

This article discusses the development and implementation of a civics project in an online American government course and explores the challenges and opportunities around managing civic engagement projects in an online format. Data analyzed for this article included 11 semesters of responses to anonymous pre- and post-project surveys, university end-of-course evaluations, Center for Civic Engagement surveys of Citizen Scholar courses, student reflection papers, and discussion board posts. Findings revealed that participation in the civics project increased students’ civic knowledge and helped them develop the skills needed to become active citizens. Students indicated that they intended to continue following current events and that they would stay involved in the political process. Lessons learned are applicable to courses in fields seeking to incorporate service-learning, community-based research, or civic engagement in an online context.

Evolution of a Required Service-Learning Course: Lessons Learned and Plans for the Future

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane P. Desselle ◽  
Christopher K. Surratt ◽  
Janet Astle ◽  
Leigh Ann White ◽  
Lina Yacovelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Future ◽  
Required Service

Lessons Learned from NASA STEM Workshops for High-Impact Professional Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Keliann LaConte ◽  
Brooks Mitchell ◽  
Christine Shupla ◽  
Carrie Liston ◽  
Ginger Fitzhugh
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Lessons Learned

scholarly journals Construction of a quality model for machine learning systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Siebert ◽  
Lisa Joeckel ◽  
Jens Heidrich ◽  
Adam Trendowicz ◽  
Koji Nakamichi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Quality Models ◽  
Quality Properties ◽  
Reference Quality ◽  
Industrial Use

AbstractNowadays, systems containing components based on machine learning (ML) methods are becoming more widespread. In order to ensure the intended behavior of a software system, there are standards that define necessary qualities of the system and its components (such as ISO/IEC 25010). Due to the different nature of ML, we have to re-interpret existing qualities for ML systems or add new ones (such as trustworthiness). We have to be very precise about which quality property is relevant for which entity of interest (such as completeness of training data or correctness of trained model), and how to objectively evaluate adherence to quality requirements. In this article, we present how to systematically construct quality models for ML systems based on an industrial use case. This quality model enables practitioners to specify and assess qualities for ML systems objectively. In addition to the overall construction process described, the main outcomes include a meta-model for specifying quality models for ML systems, reference elements regarding relevant views, entities, quality properties, and measures for ML systems based on existing research, an example instantiation of a quality model for a concrete industrial use case, and lessons learned from applying the construction process. We found that it is crucial to follow a systematic process in order to come up with measurable quality properties that can be evaluated in practice. In the future, we want to learn how the term quality differs between different types of ML systems and come up with reference quality models for evaluating qualities of ML systems.

Service-learning effects on student civic engagement and community - A case study from India

2021 ◽  
pp. 174619792110413
Author(s):  
Siamack Zahedi ◽  
Rhea Jaffer ◽  
Camille L Bryant ◽  
Kala Bada
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Educational Policies ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
K 12

The development of student civic engagement has featured in Indian educational policies for decades as a critical goal of schooling. However, the narrowness of the prescribed K-12 curricula, and the intense focus on competitive exams, do not support such an outcome. To overcome this problem, ABC School in India decided to pilot service-learning in its middle-school classroom. The idea was to assess the effects of such a program on students and the community’s welfare. Analysis of data from surveys, focus groups, and interviews showed that the service-learning project might have supported increased civic engagement in some students while also enhancing the welfare of the community served. No prior peer-reviewed empirical studies have been published on the nature and effects of service-learning at schools in India.

Evaluating the Use of Cyberinfrastructure in the Classroom to Enhance Product Dissection

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Devendorf ◽  
Kemper Lewis ◽  
Timothy W. Simpson ◽  
Robert B. Stone ◽  
William C. Regli
Keyword(s):  
Phase I ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design Engineering ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Digital Environments

Recent cyberinfrastructure initiatives seek to create ubiquitous, comprehensive, interactive, and functionally complete digital environments that consist of people, data, information, tools, and instruments for research communities. With product dissection as our unifying theme, we are forging a cyberinfrastructure to support undergraduate design engineering education through CIBER-U: Cyber-Infrastructure-Based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates. CIBER-U pairs two of the nation’s leading design repository developers with several active users and their students to realize a high-impact application of cyberinfrastructure in engineering undergraduate curricula involving freshmen through seniors. Specifically, CIBER-U combines product dissection activities at three universities with two digital design repositories, CAD modeling and animation, video, MediaWiki technology, multimedia, and undergraduate summer research experiences to enable cyberinfrastructure-based product dissection activities. Nearly 700 students have participated in the Phase I efforts of CIBER-U, which have focused primarily on generating, capturing, and storing data in two digital design repositories. Lessons learned from these efforts are presented from the students’ perspectives as well as that of the faculty in both engineering and computer science. The implications for implementing CIBER-U on a national scale are discussed along with ongoing research.

scholarly journals Teaching civic engagement: Evaluating an integrative service-learning program

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jed Metzger
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Intervention ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Integrative Learning ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Community Environments

The demands on successfully teaching intervention skills in macro (community) environments are numerous and extend beyond the confines of any one academic discipline. In particular, when considering community, the compounding of the multiple factors of social economics, diversity, social policy, history and political agendas requires an integrative approach. This mixed-methods retrospective article analyses the use of service-learning in an advanced Master of Social Work community practice course. Special attention is given to the construction of academic and community experience that facilitates learning integration and understanding of the ways in which factors compound on community wellbeing. Specifically this project involved students in efforts constructed to address violence directed by and against inner-city youth in a mid-sized northeastern city in the United States that is beset with gang violence and has led its state in per capita murders for four of the past five years. Recommendations and lessons learned presented in this article are directed at exploring a construction of service-learning that could address integrative learning in community intervention courses. Keywords: Service-learning, teaching, macro practice, violence

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