Community Service, Educational Performance and Social Responsibility in Northwest China

Autor/inn/en	Luo, Renfu; Shi, Yaojiang; Zhang, Linxiu; Liu, Chengfang; Li, Hongbin; Rozelle, Scott; Sharbono, Brian
Titel	Community Service, Educational Performance and Social Responsibility in Northwest China
Quelle	In: Journal of Moral Education, 40 (2011) 2, S.181-202 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7240
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Scholarships; Service Learning; Context Effect; Student Development; Program Evaluation; Academic Achievement; Self Esteem; Self Efficacy; Social Responsibility; Evidence; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Scholarship; Stipendium; Service-Learning; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Schulleistung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Soziale Verantwortung; Evidenz
Abstract	The main goal of this paper is to analyse the effect of high school scholarships tied to community service on the development of secondary school students in Northwest China. Using data from three rounds of surveys of thousands of students in 298 classes in 75 high schools in Shaanxi province, the paper documents the implementation of the Compassionate Heart Scholars Program and evaluates the effect of the programme on the educational performance, self-esteem, self-efficacy and social responsibility of the participants. We present evidence that part of the protocol of the programme (which includes the nomination and election of programme participants) improves the academic performance and self-esteem of those involved in the programme. The community service part of the programme is shown to raise the self-efficacy and the sense of social responsibility of the programme participants. One striking result is that the test scores of the community service participants do not appear to be adversely affected, even though they spend considerable time doing community service. The findings of this study, therefore, suggest that adding extra-curricular community service to school curricula may be a win-win-win strategy, for the students, for schools and for the local communities served. (Contains 1 figure, 4 tables and 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10