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**Data analysis until you drop: Results from six years of survey data** Adrian Wurr, Assistant Director, Service-Learning & Internships, University of Idaho [ajwurr@uidaho.edu] Cathy Hamilton, Director, Office of Leadership & Service-Learning, University of North Carolina at Greensboro [chhamilt@uncg.edu]



**Keywords:** Campus Compact, research university, student survey, survey adaptation

**Track:** Program evaluation and assessment

**Format:** Research paper **Date & time:** Friday 10:50-12:00 **Location:** Salon 10

**Summary:**

Campus Compact’s Service-Learning Student Survey (Holland et al., 2001) is a decade old and widely used, yet no instrument or item analyses have been published to date on the survey (Hou, 2009). This presentation addresses this gap in the professional literature by providing detailed results gathered from two large, research intensive universities over a six-year period. The presenters will highlight key findings from, and adaptations to, the instrument and items based on their research findings.

Each university in our study has used the survey to assess its service-learning program over the course of a number of years, resulting in completed surveys from over 2000 students. Using the collected data, the authors developed research questions and identified two or more survey questions from adapted versions of the Campus Compact student survey that would serve as indicators of each research question. The data gathered from the Campus Compact survey, administered at the end of the term in most service-learning courses offered on campus, is compared with insights gleaned from samples of students written reflections and interviews with students, faculty, and community partners.

Authors will provide handouts of the different iterations of the survey used over time, as well as succinct summaries of our research findings to date. By documenting and explaining the adaptations made to date, we hope to provide participants with a better understanding of how and why they could use and/or adapt the survey to fit their own needs.

**References:** Gelmon, S. B., Holland, B. A., Driscoll, A., Spring, A., & Kerrigan, S. (2001). //Assessing service-// //learning and civic engagement: Principles and techniques//. Providence, RI: Campus Compact.

Hou, S. (2009). Developing & pilot-testing an assessment tool on student outcome – the Service- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Learning Self-Efficacy Scale on program planning competencies (SL-SEPP). //Californian// <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">//Journal of Health Promotion, 7//(2), 123-128.

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**Please join the conversation about this session! To do so, please click on the "Edit" tab at the upper right, scroll back down to here, and lead the comment with your name.** **Adrian -- Thanks to all who attended the presentation and expressed interest in sharing and comparing data their institutions have gathered using Gelmon et al.'s student SL survey. I look forward to exchanging ideas with you here and in future meetings.**