Educators most commonly assign students to expand or create Wikipedia articles worth about a quarter of the course grade¶
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q2 i? For 63% of respondents the Wikipedia assignment comprised less than 25% of the total course grade, and 86% made it mandatory. → Shani Evenstein Sigalov 2025
q2 i? 84.7% asked students to expand existing articles and 61.3% to create new articles. → 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
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Course-design section of the 222-educator questionnaire. Grade weighting was reported descriptively: "the assignment’s grade comprised less than 25% of the total course grade" for most, with about 11% allocating over 50% and 5% the entire grade.
"for most respondents (63%), the assignment’s grade comprised less than 25% of the total course grade. Specifically, 18.6% allocated 10–15% of the total grade to the Wikipedia assignment, and 17.7% allocated 21–25%."
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Related Claims¶
- The main challenge of Wikipedia assignments is the MediaWiki learning curve, making them time-consuming — related
- Most educators report positive teaching experiences with Wikipedia assignments and intend to continue using them — related
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Educators most commonly assign students to expand or create Wikipedia articles worth about a quarter of the course grade |
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Educators most commonly assign students to expand or create Wikipedia articles worth about a quarter of the course grade |
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