Dear Pavanaja
Good work! Wikipedia is indeed a good tool to teach writing and research skills.
Sharing some thoughts if you are planning to do this course again or to others who may want to try it..
- having some standarised pre-post tests administered to the single group study might be helpful to know to what extent various cognitive skills have developed.
- if there are two or more groups then having an experimental-control group would be better. You can always give the intervention to the control group after the conclusion of the study for ethical reasons.
- document the effect of collaboration both online and offline. For example, one of the strong points of Wikipedia is the feedback one receives when someone undoes an edit or comments on our userpage. Sometimes this is positive and encouraging, and othertimes it can be negative and discouraging. Offline would be the effect of peer support. What kind of support did the learner receive and for what tasks?
- the aspect on creativity and problem solving could be explicated a bit more since it does not appear very clearly
- was the collaboration already present in the students before the start of the study or did the tool enable it? To what degree?
Congratulations once again
Vikram
On Wednesday, 11 December 2024, Pavanaja U B <pavanaja@outlook.com> wrote:
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> I did a research project to see whether editing Wikipedia improves cognitive skills among students. The results are positive and encouraging. I wrote a blog about the research project. You can read it here - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/12/03/using-wikipedia-as-a-platform-to-enhance-cognitive-skills-a-trailblazing-study/ Please read and offer your comments.
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> Thanks and regards,
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Vikram Vincent, Ph.D.