×

 

We are no longer collecting student reflections in Digication during the 2024-2025 academic year; the assessment initiative concluded in Spring 2022 and was only for the assessment taking place Fall 2021 - Spring 2022.

Assessment data collected during 2021-2022 is proving very helpful to the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship as we continue to refine the University’s Engaged Learning requirement with the Engaged Learning (EL) Subcommittee of the Board of Undergraduate Studies. (See link to executive summary below.) Although we will not be reviewing students’ final reflection assignments until a future assessment cycle year, please nonetheless continue to incorporate a comprehensive reflection assignment among the concluding elements of your course: the 2021-22 and 2015-16 assessments have demonstrated that such an exercise invites students to reflect more deeply and make meaning for themselves regarding their experience of Engaged Learning in your course. We offer a modified version of our standardized assessment-reflection prompt (shown below) as a model.

Loyola University Chicago Mission Statement:

“We are Chicago’s Jesuit, Catholic university – a diverse community seeking God in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.”

Holding in mind the University’s mission statement, please compose a written reflection of at least two double-spaced pages that explains:

  • How did you connect your in-class and out-of-class Engaged Learning experiences?
  • How did your Engaged Learning experience help you connect to the University’s mission?
  • How did the Engaged Learning experience in this course affect your personal, intellectual, civic, and/or professional development?

Here you can view the Engaged Learning Assessment Executive Summary from the 2021-2022 year.

Here you can view the Engaged Learning Assessment Executive Summary from the 2015-2016 year.  

If you have any questions about the reflection assignment, or about Loyola’s EL requirement in general, please don’t hesitate to send us an e-mail at engagedlearning@luc.edu.

Engaged Learning Outcomes

Building on participation in an engaged learning course (defined as a structured project or experience of service-learning, an academic internship, professional fieldwork, undergraduate research, or a public artistic performance), a Loyola student will be able to:

1. synthesize out-of-classroom and in-classroom learning through reflection

2. relate the experience of engaged learning to intellectual, personal, professional, and/or civic development

3. connect the engaged learning experience to the mission of Loyola University Chicago to 'expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.'

[Approved February, 2013 by Engaged Learning sub-committee of BUS]

Questions involving the assessment process? Contact EngagedLearning@luc.edu.

Documenting Engaged Learning in LOCUS

Loyola University Chicago encourages all students completing an Engaged Learning class to document their site and project information and learning objectives in LOCUS. This information is used for institutional research and documentation; however, most important to you, it is used for risk management/insurance purposes and to substantiate your fieldwork experience. Follow the instructions at this webpage to enter your information. If your organization is not present in LOCUS, please skip to 2:30 in the video tutorial for instructions to request the organization be added. Any Loyola University Chicago departmental work will be present under the department's name.‌ Here is a PowerPoint of the instructions on Entering Engaged Learning into LOCUS, for those that would like a more step by step view vs. a video.

Digication Faculty Syllabi Assessment Guide

Engaged Learning Course Syllabus Collection

Faculty instructors are encouraged to submit their syllabus for the Engaged Learning course(s) they are teaching into the Digication assessment portal. The syllabi will be reviewed to see how the Engaged Learning components of the course are articulated, especially in regard to:

  • Connecting Engaged Learning to clearly articulated learning outcomes
  • Explaining the Engaged Learning experiences clearly in the syllabus
  • Integrating reflection assignments (both formative and summative) throughout syllabus

 How to Self-Enroll in the Engaged Learning Syllabi Assessment in Digication (Faculty)

 

Video Tutorial HERE

Login to Digication