ERIC Number: EJ1436337
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1047-6210
EISSN: EISSN-1470-1286
The Impact of Service Learning Supported by the ePortfolio on the Development of Professional Competencies
Teaching Education, v35 n3 p293-310 2024
The assessment of experiential learning, such as service learning, and its outcomes, tends to take time and effort. This paper examines how service learning and traditional learning activities help university students acquire both course-specific and key competencies that would be of value in their professional careers. The results show that students consistently indicated they were better able to acquire these competencies, especially key competencies, through the service learning supported by the ePortfolio experience. Furthermore, the responses were statistically significant in 15 out of 20 competencies. The implication arising from this research is any service-learning course should provide evidence of the competencies acquired by the students; otherwise, it might be considered as volunteer service or community work by educational institutions, especially by those with little or no experience incorporating service-learning projects in their programs.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Service Learning, Competency Based Education, Lifelong Learning, Student Developed Materials, Job Skills, Portfolios (Background Materials), Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Publishing
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kenya
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