The impact on the learning outcomes of service-learning curriculum for college students in Taiwan

This study aims at exploring the service-learning experiences and learning outcomes of service-learning curriculum for college students in Taiwan. The subjects are the students who participating service-learning curriculum in 2016, 84 in total. Questionnaires were used to collect data. The service-learning outcomes consisted of self-understanding, communication skills, general knowledge application, problem solving, civic engagement, team skills, self-reflection, caring for others and intercultural competence. The findings are as follows: All the outcomes of students have significant increases between pre and post test; Most outcomes of the high quality service-learning curriculum have significant increases than those of low quality service-learning curriculum. Finally, recommendations for college to implement high quality service-learning programme are presented.