Dan Conrad

National Assessment of Experiential Education: Summary and Implications.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spiders web of silken threads suspended in the chambers of consciousness and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Johnny Says He is Learning … Through Experience

This is the first of a series of articles reporting on aspects of program evaluation. The Evaluation of Experiential Learning Project described here is of national scope and major import.

Are Experiential Learning Programs Effective

Experiential learning programs have been recommended by major commissions for years, but no one until now has at tempted to investi gate the claims of such programs. The authors, who co- direct the Evaluation of Experiential Learn ing Project, report here their early find ings and describe what lies ahead.

Some Action-Learning Models

The Student-Community Involvement Project has been working with more than a dozen public and independent secondary schools for two years, helping them to devise and strengthen the oppor tunities they provide students for personal in volvement in the wider community. The con tinuum of service models presented here is a result of analyzing the various ways in which schools participating in this cooperative en deavor relate their student-community involve ment activities to the total academic curriculum.