Dear colleagues,
My new research project, inspired by the following CfP (
*http://www.asanet.org/journals/TS/SpecialIssueCall.cfm)* aims at trying
to judge how effective our teaching assignments on Wikipedia have been,
in the context of my globalization lectures in which students have
created or expanded dozens of Wikipedia articles (you can see partial
list of articles created by my students at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus/Educational_project_results
to get an idea of what I had them to do over the past few years). It is
clear that Wikipedia benefits, but what about the students? Here are my
two questions to you.
First, my main source of data is going to be a survey of my former
students (N<100). I wonder if anyone is familiar with literature on
relevant metrics (i.e. how to design a survey to measure the
effectiveness of a teaching instrument)? I have never surveyed students
before, and while I am in the middle of a lit review, any suggestions
would be appreciated. I am somewhat familiar with the literature on
teaching with Wikipedia, but sadly few works have published surveys
used. If anything comes to mind that you think would be good to use for
comparative studies, that would also be helpful.
Second, here is my draft survey:
http://tinyurl.com/hehckvs
I'd appreciate any comments: is it too long? Are some questions
ambiguous? Unnecessary? Leading and creating bias in subsequent
questions? Should I rephrase something? Should I ask something else?
Thank you for any comments, and do not hesitate to be critical - I'd
much rather redo the survey now then after I send it out :)
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus