Service-Learning
Student Evaluation for Winter
2008
Course Title:
____Poverty and Human Capability
102___________________
Rate the following
statements by indicating your degree of agreement. Please provide comments if a statement receives a 1 or 2. Feel free to comment if it receives a 3,
4, or 5.
5 strongly
agree
4
agree
3 no
opinion
2
disagree
1 strongly
disagree
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____ I had
adequate supervision at the site.
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____ I had
adequate direction at the site. |
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____ I was busy
while serving. My service was
needed at the site. |
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____ The site
supervisor provided me with an adequate introduction of the
agency/need. |
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____ The site
supervisor provided me with opportunities to ask questions about the
agency mission, policy, and/or procedures. |
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____ I made a
significant contribution to the agency and/or agency’s
clients. |
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____ My service
was relevant to course content. |
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____ My service
enriched my understanding of course content. |
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____ My service
was a good source for practical applications of course
content. |
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____ My service
informed course content and was sufficient for course expectations (i.e.
final paper, journal entries) |
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____ I would
recommend my site of service. |
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____ The
Community Service Coordinator provided a range of service placements of
interest to me. |
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____ The
process for placement selection and assignment was efficient and
fair. |
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____ It is fair
for the student to accept responsibility for the execution of the
service-learning component once notified of
placement. |
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____ When I
called my site supervisor he/she was knowledgeable of my service-learning
goals and prepared to accommodate me. |
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___ Poverty and Human Capability 102 is an important educational experience for students interest in a better understanding of poverty. |
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Please answer the
following questions candidly.
Where did you
serve?
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Briefly describe your
service (i.e. responsibilities).
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Were the weekly
seminars helpful? How can they be
improved? What aspects of the
seminar should be retained?
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Was the journaling
process a good learning experience?
Can we provide better guidelines or a different structure that will
improve it? Were commentaries on
your journals helpful?
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Have the essays and
the comments on the essays helped you make connections between some of the
readings for Poverty and Human Capability 101 and first-hand experience of
poverty that sometimes may not fit the usual profile of poverty? Do you view the reading differently
because of the fieldwork or the fieldwork different due to the
readings?
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Do you intend to
continue service at this site beyond the hourly requirement for the course? Why?
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Additional
comments.
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On a scale of one to
seven, one being low and seven being high, rate your overall satisfaction,
experience and impression of this service-learning course.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Finally, has this
course played a significant role in participation in the Shepherd Program in
poverty studies at Washington and Lee?
Would you recommend it for other students in the Shepherd Program? How could it be made a more integral
component of this Program of study?