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Freeman, Nancy K.; King, Sherry

doi:10.1023/a:1009538708148

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“…Older students may value more the integration of practical learning in the classroom, so that they more easily recognise communities where the connection between classroom and reality can be more adequately made. However, age is a variable that is rarely taken into account in SL surveys, since younger and older students benefit equally from the benefits of this methodology (Dorsey, 2001 ; Freeman & King, 2001 ).…”

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VAL-U: Psychometric properties of a Values and Civic Attitudes Scale for University Students’ Service-Learning

Ruiz-Ordóñez

Salcedo-Mateu

Turbi

et al. 2022

Psicol. Refl. Crít.

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The service-learning disciplines can offer a unique opportunity for civic development in university students, as there is a large body of research that links it to values and civic attitudes including a vast number of ecological issues and citizen variables. Moreover, one should bear in mind that these students are future generations that will face many pressing social and environmental issues. Given the need to develop instruments to measure the impact of a service-learning methodology in university students’ values as well as civic attitudes, VAL-U is proposed. As the university can be considered a learning step prior to the professional field, the main objective of this study was to analyse the internal consistency and factor structure of the proposed VAL-U scale in the Spanish population. The scale confirmed acceptable psychometric properties. Furthermore, the results have shown high reliability and optimal goodness of fit. Promising results are offered to employ VAL-U as a valuable tool for assessing Values and Civic Attitudes Scale for Spanish-speaking University Students’ Service-Learning.

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confidence: 99%