Review of The Measure of Service Learning Research Scales to Assess Student Experience, eds. Robert G. Bringle, Mindy A. Phillips, and Michael Hudson reviewed by Billie Hara and Matthew Levy

The Measure of Service Learning offers a compilation of psychometric scales that, while not all designed specifically for service-learning, should provide useful ways to measure different aspects of students’ experience with and attitudes toward community-engaged learning. The authors group these scales under six headings: motives and values, moral development, self and self-concept, student development, attitudes, and critical thinking. Each section offers a number of tools and angles from which to evaluate what is really going on in a course, something program directors and teachers find themselves asked to do
with increasing frequency.

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