Collection

2017 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Edward T. Davis, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tony Monahan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

students are extremely limited.Service-learning Service Learning has been defined as, “an instructional method that combines communityservice with classroom instruction, focusing on critical reflective thinking as well as personal andcivic responsibility” (Robinson, 1999, p. 1). Research demonstrates the numerous positiveimpacts of academic service-learning: improvement of academic achievement across disciplinesincluding those of students who require remediation and those engaged in career and technical(CTE) majors; attainment of general education objectives and workplace skills such as criticalthinking, teamwork, and problem solving; increased student retention; and cognitive and attitudedevelopment (Eyler & Giles, 1997; Astin et al