The Impact of Service Learning in the Development of Student Teachers’ Socio-Educational Commitment
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Variables and Instruments
3. Results
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Dimension | Items |
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Awareness of social justice |
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Socio-educational action |
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Item No. | Factor 1 | Factor 2 |
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12 11 10 8 13 7 9 6 | 0.788 0.788 0.780 0.771 0.769 0.715 0.638 0.467 | |
1 2 3 4 5 | 0.851 0.798 0.729 0.655 0.646 |
Dimension | Items (Indicate the Extent to Which You Feel Capable to...) |
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Involvement and interaction with learners |
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Teaching planning |
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Items (Indicate the Extent to Which You Feel Capable to...) |
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Variable | Dimensions | M | SD |
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Socio-educational commitment | Awareness of social justice (5–30) | 25.77 | 4.09 |
Socio-educational action (8–48) | 38.03 | 6.49 | |
Total (13–78) | 63.80 | 9.86 | |
Secondary variables | Teaching self-efficacy (12–72) | 57.54 | 7.32 |
Self-efficacy with materials (5–30) | 22.95 | 4.05 |
Variable/Dimension | Factor 1: Service Learning | Factor 2: Volunteering | Interaction | |||
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F | Partial Eta2 | F | Partial Eta2 | F | Partial Eta2 | |
Socio-educational commitment | 9.428 ** | 0.044 | 0.162 | 0.001 | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Awareness of Social Justice | 2.528 | 0.012 | 1.164 | 0.006 | 1.529 | 0.007 |
Socio-educational Action | 6.815 * | 0.032 | 2.448 | 0.012 | 0.127 | 0.001 |
Variable/Dimension | Factor 1: Service Learning | Factor 2: Volunteering | Interaction | |||
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F | Partial Eta2 | F | Partial Eta2 | F | Partial Eta2 | |
Teaching self-efficacy | 14.204 *** | 0.065 | 0.071 | 0.001 | 2.354 | 0.011 |
Self-efficacy with materials | 11.608 ** | 0.054 | 0.316 | 0.002 | 1.817 | 0.009 |
Awareness of Social Justice | Socio-Educational Action | Teaching Self-Efficacy | Self-Efficacy with Materials | |
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Socio-educational action | 0.724 ** | |||
Teaching self-efficacy | 0.417 ** | 0.439 ** | ||
Self-efficacy with materials | 0.381 ** | 0.453 ** | 0.785 ** | |
Socio-educational commitment | 0.891 ** | 0.958 ** | 0.462 ** | 0.456 ** |
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Asenjo, J.T.; Santaolalla, E.; Urosa, B. The Impact of Service Learning in the Development of Student Teachers’ Socio-Educational Commitment. Sustainability 2021, 13, 11445. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011445
Asenjo JT, Santaolalla E, Urosa B. The Impact of Service Learning in the Development of Student Teachers’ Socio-Educational Commitment. Sustainability. 2021; 13(20):11445. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011445
Chicago/Turabian StyleAsenjo, Juan Tomás, Elsa Santaolalla, and Belén Urosa. 2021. "The Impact of Service Learning in the Development of Student Teachers’ Socio-Educational Commitment" Sustainability 13, no. 20: 11445. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011445