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

 

____ 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.

 

 

 

 

 

____ 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?