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

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