Role of Design for Causal Analysis in Research on Community Engagement: Review and Recommendations

The purpose of this review is to advance the application of causal inference strategies to service-learning and community engagement and offers recommendations for both practitioners and researchers. The review offers an introduction to various techniques for yielding causal conclusions and discusses an example of the technique from the literature. The conclusion offers recommendations for pursuing causal inference and improving

research designs related to service-learning and community engagement.