WikiConference India 2023/Submissions/Submitted/Effectiveness of Wikipedia in education in improving the cognitive skills - preliminary results

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Abstract/description of your session

A research study is being conducted on the effectiveness of Wikipedia as a platform of learning. It is a program with graduate degree students. It is conducted at Women's Govt College, Udupi, Karnataka. Students learn to edit, write articles, features like templates in Wikipedia and a bit of Wikidata and using queries. The idea is to test the effectiveness of Wikipedia in education as a platform of improving the cognitive ability among students. Cognitive skills tests are given in the beginning, at mid-term and at the end of the program to assess the cognitive skills of the students. In this session, the results at mid-term will be presented.

How does it connect with the WCI 2023 theme/focus

Participants will learn from the experience shared in running this research program. Also they will get ideas on running similar programs at their place.

Speaker name/s or username/s

• Dr. U.B. Pavanaja

Community/Organization

Karavali Wikimedians User Group

Contact details (optional)

pavanajagmail · com

Language of the session

English, Kannada

Session type

Lecture

Session outcomes

Participants will learn the effectiveness of Wikipedia as a platform of learning and its effectiveness in improving the cognitive skills.

Support required from organizers

No

Consent for recording

Yes