Collaboration with Lingnan University

In 2019, the RP Service-Learning team collaborated with Lingnan University, Hong Kong, to establish the validity of the Service-Learning Outcomes Measurement Scale (S-LOMS) for use outside of Hong Kong and in Singapore.

The study compared the developmental outcomes of service-learning for Hong Kong and Singapore students across the eleven domains that are represented by the subscales of S-LOMS. A pretest-posttest research design was adopted, with service-learning interventions in between.

Literature review revealed that the two jurisdictions bear similar characteristics in terms of social context and educational systems, and have comparable service-learning practices at the university level. Investigation of the pretest data (baseline) indicated significantly higher scores for Singapore students on seven domains, which may have reflected greater prior exposure to community service, as compared to the Hong Kong students. Comparisons of pretest and posttest scores through paired-sample t-tests indicated that service-learning had a significantly greater developmental impact in five domains for Hong Kong students as compared with Singapore students.

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Source: LAU, K. H., & SNELL, R. S. (2020, November). A Tale of Two Cities in Service-Learning: Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Hong Kong and Singapore of Student Developmental Outcomes After Service-Learning Experience and Validation of S-LOMS. In The 3rd Conference for Higher Education Research–Hong Kong 2020: Innovations of Higher Education Amid the Pandemic: Institutional Management, Teaching, and Research Perspectives.