Editing Service-learning (section)

== Factors in effectiveness ==
Research into service-learning claims to have identified a number of factors that determine its effectiveness. These include:

* placement "quality" (level of student challenge, responsibility, activity and sense of positive involvement and instructor/supervisor feedback)<ref name="Eyler 1999" />
* team dynamics<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chavez-Yenter |first1=Daniel |last2=Hearld |first2=Kristine Ria |last3=Badham |first3=Amy |last4=Budhwani |first4=Henna |date=13 November 2015 |title=Service-Learning in Undergraduate Global Health Education: The Effect of Team Dynamics on Civic Attitudes and Skills |url=https://journals.sfu.ca/iarslce/index.php/journal/article/view/134 |journal=The International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |doi=10.37333/001c.21578 |issn=2374-9466 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Eyler 2007" />
* placement and program duration (long enough to have a developmental impact)<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Eyler |first1=Janet |title=Service-Learning: Applications From the Research |last2=Giles Jr. |first2=Dwight |publisher=Psychology Press |year=1997 |editor-last=Waterman |editor-first=Alan S. |location=New York |pages=59 |chapter=The Importance of Program Quality in Service-Learning}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Astin |first1=Alexander W. |last2=Sax |first2=Linda J. |date=1998 |title=How Undergraduates are Affected by Service Participation |journal=Journal of College Student Development |page=260}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mabry |first=J. Beth |date=1998 |title=Pedagogical Variations in Service-Learning and Student Outcomes |journal=Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning |page=41}}</ref>
* quality of student reflection, often as activity (e.g. brainstorming) and/or in written form(e.g. journaling)<ref name="Eyler 2007" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite web |author=Robin R. Jones |title=Service-Learning Reflection Activities |url=http://www.wartburg.edu/cce/cce/assessment%20and%20reflection/SL-Reflection%20Activities.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905080645/http://www.wartburg.edu/cce/cce/assessment%20and%20reflection/SL-Reflection%20Activities.pdf |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=June 2, 2016 |publisher=Wartburg College}}</ref>