Statistical Analysis Report:

Student Participation in Community Service Activity

April 1997

(NCES 97-331) Ordering information

Contents

Acknowledgments

Highlights

1. Introduction

• Previous Research
• Data Sources and Indicators

2. Level of Participation

• Plans to Participate Next Year
• Student Characteristics
• Alternative Student Activities
• Family Characteristics
• Community Characteristics
• School Characteristics

3. School Practices to Encourage Participation and Learning

• Relationship Between School Policies and Student Participation
  • Types of schools promoting community service
  • The impact of adults as examples
• A Multivariate Test of the Relationship Between School Policies and Student Participation
• Incorporating Community Service into the Curriculum

3. Summary and Conclusions

4. Survey Methodology and Data Reliability

• Response Rates
• Data Reliability
  • Weighting and sampling errors
  • Nonsampling errors
• Hours of Service Measure
• Students' Expectations of Serving Later in the School Year
• Multivariate Analysis

5. References

List of Tables

Table 2.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 and their reported plans for community service participation next year, by community service participation in the current year: 1996

Table 3.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 and their reported community service participation, by selected student activities: 1996

Table 4.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 and their reported participation in community service, by selected household characteristics: 1996

Table 5.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 and their reported community service participation, by selected community characteristics: 1996

Table 6.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 and their reported participation in community service, by selected school characteristics: 1996

Table 7.- Community service participation of students in grades 6 through 12, by reported school practices to promote student community service: 1996

Table 8.- Hours of regular community service participation in the current school year for students in grades 6 through 12, by reported school practices to promote student community service: 1996

Table 9.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 who reported school practices to promote student community service, by student's grade and school type: 1996

Table 10.- Community service participation of students in grades 6 through 12, by participation in community service of adults in the household and by school practices to promote community service: 1996

Table 11.- A logistic regression analysis to predict student participation in community service

Table 12.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 participating in community service who reported incorporation of community service in the curriculum, by school practices to promote student community service: 1996

Table 13.- Logistic regression analysis to predict student participation in community service (full model, including variables that were not statistically significant)

List of Figures

Figure 1.- Percent of 6th through 12th grade students and their total hours of participation in regular community service during the current school year: 1996)

Figure 2.- Percent of students in grades 6 through 12 who reported various school practices to promote community service: 1996

List of Exhibits

Exhibit 1.- Item response rates for variables used in the analysis

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Acknowledgments