Note: This analysis inspired the essay: User:Colin/A large scale student assignment – what could possibly go wrong?, which is considerably more readable than these jottings.
This is an analysis of student edits for the course Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Introduction to Psychology, Part I (Steve Joordens). The students were awarded bonus marks for their course as follows:
- 1% for creating a Wikipedia username and linking it to the Canadian Education Program, Registering with the APS Wikipedia Initiative, and linking your student number to your Wikipedia username as Steve highlighted in class
- 1% for editing any psychology-related article in the English language Wikipedia (an article either pulled from the list on the APS website, or one you found yourself) to include at least one sentence expanding on the article and including an appropriate citation to back up the claim made in the sentence.
- 1% for editing an additional article on a psychology-related topic either in the English version of Wikipedia or, preferably, in another language version you feel suitably proficient to edit.