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Since 1993, over 500,000 people have served in AmeriCorps national service programs. This dissertation evaluates the long-term impacts of AmeriCorps service on participants, particularly in the areas of civic engagement, future volunteerism, appreciation of diversity, and a number of other job and life skills. It fills a gap by using both quantitative and qualitative methods to help illuminate some of the ways that program characteristics play a mediating role on the participants' outcomes.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Background and Policy Relevance
Chapter Two
Review of the Literature
Chapter Three
Methods
Chapter Four
Analysis and Findings
Chapter Five
Longitudinal Study Design
Chapter Six
Methods
Chapter Seven
Results
Chapter Eight
Implications for Program Design
Chapter Nine
Suggestions for Future Research
Appendix A
Alumni interview protocol
Appendix B
Details of interview participants
Appendix C
Alumni interview codebook
Appendix D
Survey items used in constructing outcomes
Appendix E
Quantitative analysis results
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This document was submitted as a dissertation in August 2009 in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctoral degree in public policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. The faculty committee that supervised and approved the dissertation consisted of John Graham (Chair), Francisco Martorell, James Perry, and Susan Marquis.
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