Service-learning research : foundational issues / Jeffrey Howard -- Issues of definition and program diversity in the study of service-learning / Andrew Furco -- Epistemology and service-learning research / Fredric Waldstein -- Using developmental theory in the design and evaluation of K-16 service-learning programs / L. Richard Bradley -- Issues regarding the selection of variables for study in the context of the diversity of possible student outcomes of service-learning / Alan S. Waterman -- Creating and utilizing databases on service-learning / Carl Fertman and Yolanda Yugar -- Issues of research design and statistical analysis / Deborah Hecht -- Practical issues in the conduct of large-scale, multisite research and evaluation / Lawrence Bailis and Alan Melchior -- Self-assessment for service-learning / Robert Shumer -- Teacher research in service-learning / Susan Root -- Expanding the paradigm : students as researchers in service-learning / Jeffrey Anderson -- Promise and challenge of service-learning portraiture research / Don Hill, Terry Pickeral, and Marty Duckenfield