2022 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 137-147
In recent years, university contributions to local communities have spread nationwide with various government support measures. It is important to link these efforts to education and research to achieve synergistic effects, and the number of community contribution programs conducted as part of classes has been increasing every year and is expected to continue to increase in the future.
This paper focuses on programs that link university education with community contributions and are offered as part of the coursework. Although these programs are characterized by aspects of education and public policy, we present as an issue that evaluations aimed at improving the quality of the programs from a public policy perspective are few in number and insufficiently verified compared to studies on student learning effectiveness. We will also discuss the concrete effects of quality improvement evaluation, and the significance of evaluation for the purpose of quality improvement, using three typical evaluations conducted at universities as examples: accreditation evaluation, class evaluation, and learning evaluation (grade evaluation).
