Meta-Analysis: The Benefits Of Service Learning

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Julie M. Novak, Vern Markey, and Mike Allen, all professors in communications at creditable colleges, have each earned varying degrees in their field and give them all credibility to speak on the topic of service learning. Although, Novak, Markey, and Allen’s article is a Meta-Analysis, meaning that they are using other peoples works and studies to then form a basis off of what has already been done, they use it to argue how service learning effects students. The design of the studies in the article only has a sample size of only nine service learning studies. With the nine studies, Novak, Markey, and Allen, argued that service learning was very beneficial for the student in multiple ways. Service learning benefited the student with cognitive

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