STATRE

We used questions from the Civic Attitudes and Skills Questionnaire (CASQ) for Evaluation of Service-Learning Outcomes as our survey questions and we administered it through a google form.

The main challenge throughout the research process was actually collecting the data from our classmates as a handful of them failed to complete the survey given. Those who failed to complete the pre-Service-Learning survey questions will cause an inaccurate response to be given if they were to complete it after the implementation of the programmes. With lesser responses, this also leads to the data not being an accurate representative of the target population. To avoid such challenges in the future, we can gather the participants in a setting and get them to complete the survey before leaving.

I personally feel that qualitative data is better in this context than quantitative as the responses given are more specific and in elaborated. For example, one of the quantitative questions asked was, ‘I plan to be more involved in my community’. Quantitatively, participants can only rate the extent of whether you agree or disagree but in a qualitative context, participants are able to elaborate more on how he intends to be more involved or who in the community he wants to help etc. This gives me a better understanding of how Service-Learning impacted the individual’s civic responsibility and self-efficacy on a personal level.