Building Decision Skills plus service learning showed no statistically significant effects on self-esteem, general social responsibility, or anticipated community participation¶
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Building Decision Skills 2006¶
Building Decision Skills. (2006). WWC Intervention Report, What Works Clearinghouse. https://www.globalethics.org/services/edu/bds.htm
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In the Leming (2001) quasi-experiment, Appendix A3 prints small WWC-computed effect sizes for these outcomes: self-esteem 0.07 (improvement index +3), social responsibility (general) 0.09 (+4), and anticipated community participation 0.22 (+9), all marked ns. Equivalence was not tested.
"However, Leming found no statistically significant impact on self-esteem, social respon- si-bility (general), and anticipated future community participation."
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Related Claims¶
- All three instructional groups began at comparable, mostly low decision-making levels and all improved over the intervention — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Building Decision Skills plus service learning significantly improved twelfth-graders' ethical perspective relative to a no-character-education comparison — related
- Effects favoring the curriculum-plus-service-learning condition over service-learning alone appeared only for ethical awareness and ethical perspective — related
- Service-learning within integrated projects is associated with improvements in students' self-efficacy, self-esteem, social responsibility, and community participation — related
- Building Decision Skills combined with service learning has potentially positive effects on high school students' knowledge, attitudes, and values — related
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Building Decision Skills plus service learning showed no statistically significant effects on self-esteem, general social responsibility, or anticipated community participation |
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Building Decision Skills plus service learning showed no statistically significant effects on self-esteem, general social responsibility, or anticipated community participation |
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