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10 June 2011 - The final assessment went out to both Wikipedians and policy assessors!
15 April 2011 - The first assessment for spring term is nearly complete. THANK YOU Assessment Team!!! The second assessment round will go out next week. The spring term has a lot of interesting topics and many participants, so it looks like the project is having a substantial impact on public policy content.
24 January 2011 - A summary of results from the metric assessment is posted. A full report is coming soon to the outreach wiki.
22 December 2010 - The final round of assessments for this semester is ready. This one will work like the previous round: assessors choose the articles. This is the same set of articles from the Student Pre Assessment; look for big improvements in the articles!
13 December 2010 – The student post assessment requests will be posted here next week, as students are finishing classes this week. Researcher Amy is back from maternity leave and working to get caught up. For assessment team members: email Amy if you would like some recent pics of her daughter!
18 November 2010 – Another round of assessments is available. This round measures the quality of articles students are working on at the revision prior to when the students made their first edits.
3 November 2010 – The next round of assessments is out! Active assessors should see a message on their talk pages. This time, we're letting assessors pick the topics from a randomly selected list.
20 October 2010 – LiAnna Davis (User:Ldavis (Public Policy)) is temporarily taking over assessment while Amy Roth is on maternity leave. All current assessments should be completed by the end of this week. Look for new assessments in November.
14 October 2010 – Preliminary data analysis shows consistent assessment results among Wikipedia reviewers. The next step of the first assessment is to compare Wikipedian results to subject matter expert results. More info.
Article quality assessment is the primary research goal for the WikiProject: United States Public Policy page. As the basis for evaluation overall article quality improvement, article assessment is essential to the Public Policy Initiative (PPI).