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SERVICE-LEARNING CAN HELP ACHIEVE
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Service-Learning Center has identified student development outcomes
that can be achieved during the service-learning educational experience.
Student Development Outcomes
TAMIU students will demonstrate:
• Personal Responsibility
º Students develop valuable skills that will enhance and strengthen
their capacity to be leaders as they work with community
organizations.
º Students are able to identify their own culturally influenced feelings
and beliefs.
º Students feel worthwhile, confident, and competent.
º Students learn to adapt to changes and to tolerate ambiguity.
º Students clarify their values and gain insight into moral or ethical
issues or dilemmas.
• Social Responsibility
º Students believe they have the personal capacity to make a
difference and contribute positively to society.
º Students’ value working with a group to accomplish a task and
believe a group can often accomplish more than an individual.
º Students believe that members of society are interdependent and
have an obligation to work with others to strive for the well being
of all people in all circumstances and for sustaining the earth’s
living systems.
• Communication
º Students gain experience behaving assertively by developing
their ability to be honest and direct while expressing their own
thoughts, feelings, and interests to others.
º Students will develop verbal and non-verbal delivery through their
service-learning Expo presentations.
º Students will communicate in a professional manner as they
engage with community partners.
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