The Assessment of Service and Civic Engagement (ASCE) aims to provide an assessment tool to measure student civic engagement at institutions, generate individual data to allow conclusions about student subsets, and create a national benchmark dataset for comparative civic engagement analysis. The assessment would collect data on the frequency, type, duration, and effects of student service and civic engagement experiences, as well as institutional practices. Preliminary findings from pilot institutions found differences between high school and college civic engagement, an overestimation of engagement by institutions, and that the assessment could be a useful planning tool.

1. Assessment of Service and Civic
Engagement (ASCE)
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2. Assessment of Service & Civic
Engagement (ASCE)
The goals of the study are to:
1. Provide an assessment tool to assess (on the institutional level)
a. frequency, type, duration, motivations for, obstacles to, civic
engagement activity on the part of students
b. effects of institutionalization on student service and civic
engagement experiences.
2. Generate individual level data that will allow institutions to draw
conclusions about student sub-sets, and the student body as
a whole, for internal and external descriptive data needs like
marketing, accreditation, and strategic planning.
3. Create a national benchmark data-set for comparative analysis
of civic engagement in higher education (of students and of
institutions).

3. ASCE

4. ASCE
Service & Structures

5. ASCE Engagement

6. ASCE Types of Service
Type & Freq

7. Type
Drill
Frequency
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Depth

8. Mode

9. Institutional Practices

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12. Student Satisfaction w/ Service and CE at XYZ College
Strongly
disagree Strongly agree
7% 12%
Disagree
42% Agree
39%

13. High School vs. College No
13%
Yes
87%
No
39%
Yes
61%

14. Preliminary Findings
Typology:
One Shot, Continuing but Time Bound, Sustained
Structure, Structure, Structure
High School to College Drop-off
Overestimation by Institutional Actors
Useful Planning Tool