Service-Learning and Leadership Life Skills: An Experimental Study

This study examined the effect of service activities on the development of leadership life skills in youth and (queried) if having a reflection component as part of the activity makes a difference. Additionally, the study examined the impact of selected demographics including age, gender, type of service completed monthly and 4-H membership on the development of leadership life skills. Participants in the study were from two samples. One group represented the El Paso National Youth Service Day, the other represented the District 11 4-H Leadership Lab in Branham, Texas. Participants were randomly assigned to a control (no reflection) or treatment (with reflection) group. Youth participants self rated their leadership life skills using a 33-question post-test only questionnaire. Demographics were reported in nine additional questions. The major findings of the study are as follows: 1) Overall, the participants reported their perceived leadership life skills to be high in four of the five subscales; 2) The inclusion of a reflection component did not significantly affect perceived leadership life skills; 3) Type of service, whether direct or indirect, had a significant impact on perceived leadership life skills; 4) 4-H membership had a significant impact on the Personal Leadership Development subscale.

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Impact of Life Skills on Leadership Development

International Journal of Social Sciences and Management ◽

10.3126/ijssm.v2i3.12650 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 273-274

Author(s):

Kriti Vashishtha

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Leadership Development ◽

Problem Solving ◽

Life Skills ◽

School Level ◽

Problem Solving Skills ◽

Psychosocial Skills ◽

Post Test ◽

Affective Components ◽

The Impact

Life skills are basically the psychosocial skills which include personal, social, interpersonal, cognitive and affective components on an individual. For a better life one needs to have better decision making and problem solving skills. If any head or leader posses these characteristics then his/her tasks of making his/her leadership effective also becomes easy. Present study aims to see the impact of life skills sessions on problem solving and decision making attitude of school level leaders. For this purpose, 150 students were selected from 10 different schools. The age group ranged between 16-18 years. It is a pre and post test study. After taking the pre-test of the students (head/leaders) on the basis life-skills questionnaire by NCERT, the students were provided with 10 life-skills sessions (5 on problem solving and 5 on decision making, one session per day). After the sessions, the same questionnaire was administered on the students. On the basis of students’ response, t-test was applied and results have showed a significant enhancement in the skills of decision making and problem solving in the leaders.Int. J. Soc. Sci. Manage. Vol-2, issue-3: 273-274 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v2i3.12650

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Pengembangan Keterampilan Pembacaan Maulid Dan Seni Hadrah Al-Banjari Bagi Remaja Masjid Darul Mu’awanah Banjaranyar Tanjunganom Nganjuk

Janaka, Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat ◽

10.29062/janaka.v3i2.307 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 31-46

Author(s):

Afiful Huda ◽

Ahmad Mustakim

Keyword(s):

Service Learning ◽

Learning Strategies ◽

Religious Education ◽

Action Planning ◽

Monitoring And Evaluation ◽

Not Given ◽

Youth Organizations ◽

Education Experience ◽

Post Test ◽

The Impact

Nowadays, youth is an important asset for the next generation of Nation and Religion, but it should be noted that there are so many disturbances that usually come at any time, one of which is technology. The youth of the Masjid Dusun Banjaranyar mostly have religious education experience a sluggishness in activities, because the mosque, which is supposed to be the center of education, is not given much attention, and there are rarely activities or even none. We focus on this program in developing Hadroh Arts skills and reading Mawlid, this activity involves mosque youth and youth youth organizations. This program is pursued through several stages, namely: Appreciative Inquiry (AI); Discovery; Visioning; Asset Mapping; Mobilization (Action Planning), Monitoring and Evaluation. The method used is service learning, including learning strategies, teaching, and reflecting. The result of this service is the impact of changes from each participant, this can be seen from the results of the pre-test and post-test assessments carried out. Changes from each participant began to improve a lot, this was also seen after conducting a posttest assessment with routine exercise twice a week, everything became more evenly distributed.

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The Impact of New-Genre Leadership Style Training on Leadership Skills of School Leaders

Global Regional Review ◽

10.31703/grr.2019(iv-ii).15 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol IV (II) ◽

pp. 134-144

Author(s):

Neelam Nisar ◽

Uzma Quraishi ◽

Afifa Khanam

Keyword(s):

Leadership Development ◽

Leadership Style ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

School Leaders ◽

Leadership Skills ◽

Public And Private ◽

Member Exchange ◽

Post Test ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

The Impact

This research determined the impact of New-Genre leadership style training on leadership skills of school leaders working in public and private schools. The rational of this training was developed on the basis of related literature and training need analysis. A short-course was developed focusing the deficient areas and offered to 120 participants, randomly sampled to participate in this training. With addition of sub-grouping and a follow-up study, one-group pre-test post-test design was adapted in this quasi-experimental research using quantitative methods. For statistical analysis, mean, standard deviation, percentages and paired sample t-test were applied. According to findings, the New-Genre Leadership Style Training has enhanced the leadership skills of school leaders. The five representative styles: Transformational, Transactional, Authentic, Leader-member Exchange and Global were found highly applicable and effective in educational leadership development. Such professional development courses have been endorsed by the participants for promoting quality education through quality leadership in Pakistan.

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The impact of a leadership development programme on nurses' self-perceived leadership capability

Journal of Nursing Management ◽

10.1111/jonm.12257 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 23 (8) ◽

pp. 1086-1093 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Karyn Paterson ◽

Amanda Henderson ◽

Elizabeth Burmeister

Keyword(s):

Leadership Development ◽

Development Programme ◽

Perceived Leadership ◽

Leadership Capability ◽

The Impact

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Measuring wildland fire leadership: the crewmember perceived leadership scale

International Journal of Wildland Fire ◽

10.1071/wf15077 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (8) ◽

pp. 1168 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alexis L. Waldron ◽

David P. Schary ◽

Bradley J. Cardinal

Keyword(s):

Leadership Development ◽

Online Survey ◽

Wildland Fire ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Late Summer ◽

Early Summer ◽

Hard Copy ◽

Future Research ◽

Two Samples ◽

Perceived Leadership

The aims of this research were to develop and test a scale used to measure leadership in wildland firefighting using two samples of USA wildland firefighters. The first collection of data occurred in the spring and early summer and consisted of an online survey. The second set of data was collected towards late summer and early fall (autumn). The second set of data was collected via hard-copy surveys that were mailed in by respondents who were recruited via email and in person at large wildland fires. Through confirmatory factor analyses, a three-factor, higher-order, multidimensional structure of leadership in wildland fire was supported. The Crewmember Perceived Leadership Scale consists of perceptions of competent decision-making, personal genuineness and integrity of supervisors as seen by their subordinates. Initial evidence of reliability and validity was supported during the first study of this research. Results from Study 1 indicate that higher rankings of fire leaders by their crewmembers was related to higher worker engagement and job satisfaction. The second study included an additional five items to rate fire leaders; the structure of the three leadership components was again supported. Implications for leadership development in wildland fire, future research and practice are discussed.

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The Impact of TimeSlips on Undergraduate Students in Service Learning With Older Adults

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/2020_persp-20-00171 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Sabine Heuer

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Service Learning ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Attitude Scale ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Attitudes Toward Older Adults ◽

Students Attitudes ◽

Attitude Shift ◽

The Impact ◽

Journal Entries

Purpose Future speech-language pathologists are often unprepared in their academic training to serve the communicative and cognitive needs of older adults with dementia. While negative attitudes toward older adults are prevalent among undergraduate students, service learning has been shown to positively affect students' attitudes toward older adults. TimeSlips is an evidence-based approach that has been shown to improve health care students' attitudes toward older adults. The purpose of this study is to explore the change in attitudes in speech-language pathology students toward older adults using TimeSlips in service learning. Method Fifty-one students participated in TimeSlips service learning with older adults and completed the Dementia Attitude Scale (DAS) before and after service learning. In addition, students completed a reflection journal. The DAS data were analyzed using nonparametric statistics, and journal entries were analyzed using a qualitative analysis approach. Results The service learners exhibited a significant increase in positive attitude as indexed on the DAS. The reflective journal entries supported the positive change in attitudes. Conclusions A noticeable attitude shift was indexed in reflective journals and on the DAS. TimeSlips is an evidence-based, patient-centered approach well suited to address challenges in the preparation of Communication Sciences and Disorders students to work with the growing population of older adults.

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