Most educators report positive teaching experiences with Wikipedia assignments and intend to continue using them¶

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q2 i? 83% of surveyed educators rated their overall teaching experience with Wikipedia as 4 or 5 on a 1–5 scale, and 59.5% rated likelihood of future use as 5. → Shani Evenstein Sigalov 2025

Evidence¶

Shani Evenstein Sigalov 2025¶

Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Piotr Konieczny. (2025). Writing for the greater good: what do educators think about using Wikipedia as a teaching tool? Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-025-10505-x

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Questionnaire survey of 222 educators who used Wikipedia assignments, open May–August 2020, with purposive sampling through Wikimedia and Wiki Education channels. In the teaching-experience section, "83% of respondents rated the experience as either 4 or 5"; only 3.2% rated it 1 or 2.

"83% of respondents rated the experience as either 4 or 5 (36.9% and 46.4%, respectively). Only 13.5% rated it as a 3, and just 3.2% rated their experience as either 1 or 2."

Discussion¶

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