Evaluations of a Service-Learning experience in the Campus Bizia Lab program

Abstract

This paper shows the evaluations of a Campus Bizia Lab Program project (UPV/EHU) focused on the Final Degree Projects (TFG) of the students of the Early Childhood and Primary Education Degrees, mentioning Physical Education (PE). The students carry out their TFG through theoretical-practical proposals of Service-Learning (ApS), mostly linked to PE contents. The opinions of 27 university students and 7 persons in charge of entities receiving the service, obtained through open-response questionnaires and ethnographic narratives, were analyzed. The results show satisfaction with the methodology: university students improve their professional competences by living an experiential learning experience where they have to respond to real situations in underprivileged environments, and the entities qualify the ApS projects as successful, interesting and positive. Therefore, the experience has met and exceeded expectations from the point of view of participation and social impact.