Hi Everyone, For the last year I've been working on a fairly large (social science) research project studying student learning outcomes using Wikipedia based assignments with the Wiki Education Foundation. This was a mixed-methods study designed to address a variety of research questions and provide open data for researchers to dig through, analyze, and utilize in whatever way they deem fit.
Today I am happy to announce that the research report, the data, the codebooks, and many other supporting documents have been released under an open license. The research report mostly summarizes the preliminary analysis (there were a LOT of questions) of some of the qualitative and quantitative data, but it is also meant to help understand the larger scope of the research project as well. Although this is just a preliminary report, I am working on a few journal publications with this data, so this should lead to more than the report (on my end at least). If you are interested in student learning, new users, information literacy, or skills transfer, I hope this report and data set finds you well. Blog post by LiAnna Davis on WMF Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/19/wikipedia-information-literacy-study/ Full data set (zip file): https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/research Research report (commons): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Student_Learning_Outcomes_using_Wikipedia-based_Assignments_Fall_2016_Research_Report.pdf best, Zach -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD www.zachmcdowell.com _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
