Assessing Wikipedia contributions – Wiki Education

"It’s the end of the term which means grading season is upon us. The ultimate goal of a Wikipedia assignment is to simultaneously improve content on Wikipedia while providing students with important digital literacy skills. But doubtless, students are likely eager to find out their grades, and instructors may be wondering how exactly to assess their student contributions to Wikipedia. Before you can begin evaluating the content your students contributed to Wikipedia, you’ll need to find where their contributions are. Hopefully, most students have moved their work into the article mainspace, but some work may still reside in sandboxes. The Dashboard is your one-stop shop for locating and assessing your students’ contributions. The Dashboard allows you to view student work in two important ways, either by individual student or by articles contributed to. Here are in-depth instructions on how to use the Dashboard to view and assess student work. We recognize that what constitutes a quality Wikipedia contribution can vary in important ways from the traditional writing assignment. To help instructors assess the quality of their student contributions, we’ve developed a sample grading rubric...."