Service Learning
Bowdoin College Service-Learning Questionnaire
-- Bowdoin Student Form --
Your response to this questionnaire is greatly appreciated as the Bowdoin Community Service Resource Center seeks to learn more about the impact of service-learning on Bowdoin's students and curriculum. Please respond to all questions as they apply to the service-learning course you designate in the pull-down menu choice box, "Course:", below. To submit your completed questionnaire, click on the SUBMIT button at the end of this questionnaire. If you have trouble completing or submitting this form, please contact Margaret Allen in the Office of Institutional Research. Thank you.
| Course: Semester/Year: Fall 2004 |
| What class year are you? First-Year Sophomore Junior Senior |
| Did you take this course to fulfill a requirement for your major or minor? Yes No |
| Did you take this course to fulfill a distribution requirement? Yes No |
| Did you take this course because it had a service-learning component? Yes No |
Briefly describe the service-learning project you were part of for this course.
Approximately how many hours per week did you spend working on your service-learning project?
Over 20 hours
16-20 hours
11-15 hours
5-10 hours
Fewer than 5 hours
How many service-learning courses did you take this semester?
1
2
3
more than 3
The following items complete the phrase (in bold) below. Click on the number that best represents how true each completed statement is for you.
| "The service-learning project I worked on in this course ..." | Very true | ... | Not at all true | ||
| ... made this course very different from other courses I have taken at Bowdoin that didn't require service-learning. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... meant that this course required a greater commitment of time than other courses that didn't require service-learning. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... meant that this course required more work on my part than other courses that didn't require service-learning. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... motivated me to work harder in this course. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... made me feel that part of my learning was self-guided and independent of the instructor. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... was an extremely valuable part of this course. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... was closely linked to the subject of this course. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... increased what I learned about this subject. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... increased my interest in this subject. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... increased my interest in this field. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| "The service-learning project I worked on in this course ..." (continued) | Very true | ... | Not at all true | ||
| ... enabled me to really know what it's like to be a practitioner in this field. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... was a lot of fun. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... was more work than it was worth. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... meant that this course gave me a greater sense of pride and accomplishment than most courses. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... definitely met a need in the community. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... will make a difference to the community/community partner. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... made me more aware of problems in the community. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... made me more aware of how I can be of service to the community. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... made me more interested in community service. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... made me interested in continuing the project as a volunteer or through an independent study. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| ... made me interested in community service as a career choice. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
To what extent, if any, did you improve in the following areas while working on the service-learning project for this course? If an area below is not applicable to your project, please click on "NA" at the end of the line for that area.
| I improved tremendously | ... | I did not improve at all | Not Applicable | |||
| your ability to cooperate with others on a project | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your ability to lead others toward a goal | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your ability to appropriately accept suggestions and criticism from others | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your ability to appropriately give suggestions and criticism to others | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your ability to plan and organize a presentation | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your ability to speak in front of people | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your ability to make connections between theory and practice | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your understanding of the process of solving problems | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
| your confidence in working well with people | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | NA |
Open-ended Questions
Briefly describe any challenges you had with fulfilling the requirements of your service-learning project outside of class or with taking multiple service-learning courses in one semester.
What did this service-learning experience teach you specifically about this discipline?
Is there anything else you'd like to add about your experience with service-learning that was not covered in this questionnaire?
Please submit your completed questionnaire by clicking SUBMIT or clear the questionnaire and start over by clicking CLEAR.