Abstract:

Service-learning (SL) is a methodology that contributes to the formation of values and the citizenship of university students, who can acquire a relevant role in the construction of a more dignified, inclusive, cohesive and equitable citizenship. The objective of the work is to quantify how the SL methodology implemented in a subject improves the competences of the students in the same course of implementation and after one year of implementation. Four experimental groups were formed: a) group SL-course 2017-2018; b) group Non-LS-course 2017-2018; c) group SL-course 2018-2019; d) group Non-SL-course 2018-2019. Each one of the groups was evaluated during the academic year 2018-2019 in the competencies developed in the subject Clinical Neurology applied to the speech therapist where the SL project is implemented. The results were compared by means of a t-Student and Anova. The results showed that the SL-course 2018-2019 group of students obtained significantly higher grades than the Non-SL-course 2018-2019 group. Surprisingly, this result was maintained during the academic year 2018-2019, in the students where the SL project had been implemented in the academic year 2017-2018, so that the SL- course 2017-2018 group continued to maintain higher and significantly higher grades than the Non-SL-course 2017-2018.

Keywords:

Speech therapy, service-learning, senior citizens, clinical propaedeutic, evaluation.