What Is Application-Based Service Learning?
ABSL is...
View the projects below to see how students are using ABSL to make a difference!
- A novel pedagogy using a collaborative, integrated approach to teach scientific concepts and skills in a course setting.
- Novel approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education to help solve community-based problems:
- Students carry out service learning to understand the community-based problem and its impact. They apply the scientific method to a research question posed by the community problem to better understand or help solve it.
- Simultaneously, students are taught technical writing, laboratory techniques, problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
View the projects below to see how students are using ABSL to make a difference!
Impact of Natural Resource Extraction Research
Provided by Dr. Mike Engle
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Redeveloping Brownfields
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Bacteria in Feral Cat
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ABSL in the NEWS!
Dr. Sarah Woodley -
Duquesne University
Duquesne University’s annual Creative Teaching Award recognizes Dr. Sarah Woodley's ABSL work.
The award highlights the unique educational experience Dr. Woodley's students receive in courses based on the Application-Based Service Learning pedagogy, developed with Duquesne’s Dr. Nancy Trun and funded by the National Science Foundation.
The award was conferred by the University’s Center for Teaching Excellence at today’s Celebration of Teaching Excellence. Congratulations, Dr. Woodley!
The award highlights the unique educational experience Dr. Woodley's students receive in courses based on the Application-Based Service Learning pedagogy, developed with Duquesne’s Dr. Nancy Trun and funded by the National Science Foundation.
The award was conferred by the University’s Center for Teaching Excellence at today’s Celebration of Teaching Excellence. Congratulations, Dr. Woodley!
NSF Funding and Peer-Reviewed Acclaim for ABSL
- 2007 - National Science Foundation CCLI grant: A Model for Incorporating Application-Based Service Learning in the Undergraduate Science Curriculum (Grant 0717685)
- 2012 - National Science Foundation TUES grant: Expanding and Refining the Application-Based Service-Learning Pedagogy (Grant 1226175)
- Featured project of the Critical Thinking Assessment Test, which showed that ABSL students achieved exceptional gains in critical thinking.
Banner photo credit: Cassandra Ufner
