Example Reflection Questions

Reflection may take place before, during, and after the service activity. Below are sample questions to help guide the reflection process.

Pre-Service

What do you expect to experience at the service site?
What do you think is expected of you during this service experience?
What do you expect to gain from this experience?
What do you expect will be the impact of this activity on the service recipients?
What do you think about the problem that you will address through this service activity?
What do you think about the way the problem is currently being addressed?
What do you think about the population being served by this activity?

During the Service

Are you doing what you thought you would be doing? (If not, why?)
Are your expectations about the activity being met?
Are your expectations about the community organization being met?
What is going right?
What is not going right? How can it be fixed?
Do you think service recipients are benefiting from this service?
Do you think the activity is meaningful and worthwhile?
Do you want to continue with the project or quit? Why?

Post-Service

Did you learn anything from this experience?
What did you learn from this experience?
Were your expectations about the service met?
Was the community problem addressed through your service?
Were the goals and objectives of the project accomplished?
How have your views about the problem changed?
How have your views about the population you served changed?
What do you think about the way policymakers or those in positions to effect change are addressing this problem?
What were the benefits from participating in this service activity?
Has this experience changed you? If yes, how?
Would you do this again? Why?
What are the most important points you take with you from this experience?
Do you think you will continue to be involved in service?

Wayne State University

AIM HIGHER

Community Engagement@Wayne

Example Reflection Questions