A UW-Madison undergraduate works with a middle school student on a writing exercise. Teaching others is one of the strongest methods for retaining information learned in the classroom. Photo by Jeff Miller, University Communications
Why choose service learning & community based research?
Research performed at the National Training Laboratory show that learning retention increases substantially as a student moves from hearing or reading about a subject and into experiencing, discussing, and teaching others about a subject.
The benefits of service learning and community based research are now well documented through extensive research, including:
- improving academic achievement across a variety of disciplines
- having a positive impact on interaction with faculty
- having a positive impact on students' learning of key concepts in the course
- faculty are finding that service learning can reinvigorate teaching and adds to their research agenda
- the community has a better understanding of the campus's courses and goals.
