User:Dr Ashton/sandbox: stash of old class

This is NOT a Wikipedia article page. It is a sandbox page.

This page has information on the online I/O Psych assignment taught on Wikipedia by Dr Ashton for Psychology 253; Spring, 2013 and Summer 2013.

Learning I/O Psych by editing Wikipedia!

The goal of the assignment is for students to edit and improve a number of Wikipedia articles in the area of I/O Psychology. Specifically, I wish students to make small edits -- just a few sentences -- to several Wikipedia articles over the course of the semester.

Semester Wikipedia Project

We will be learning how to edit Wikipedia. The objectives for this assignment are:

To learn I/O Psych content
To develop writing skills
To develop an understanding of crowdsourcing
To reflect upon value of Wikipedia
To reflect upon our ability to create knowledge
To develop self-directed planning and follow up

Learning Wikipedia Assignment

In this assignment, students will demonstrate that they know how to navigate around Wikipedia, create pages and do basic markup editing. They will need to create a userpage and fill it with appropriate information (for a Wikipedia userpage) and use basic Wikipedia markup language.

Editing Wikipedia assignment

This assignment will run most of the semester. In this assignment you will make several edits to Wikipedia articles on topics related to our class. This assignment is based upon contracting for a grade, peer-review and self-assessment.

The goal of the assignment. The goal of the assignment is for students to edit and improve a number of Wikipedia articles in the area of I/O Psychology. Specifically, I wish students to make small edits to several Wikipedia articles over the course of the semester. You will need to choose a topic from chapters 3 through 13 in Schultz & Schultz for each new edit (you can’t receive credit for more than one edit for topics from the same chapter).

I expect the mode will be a three to five sentence change in eight articles. Modally, four articles will be edited using information from our textbook (Schultz and Schultz) and four article will be edited using information from out textbook and a research article in I/O Psychology.

Contracting for a grade

When contracting for a grade, a student is given an option of how much work they will do for the course. Higher levels of work are related to higher grades. We will be doing informal contracting. I will describe the requirements for the assignment and for grade levels and you will decide on which grade you wish to peruse and submit the work for that grade level.

Peer-review

Grading will be using a crowdsourcing model of peer-review. Once you have finished an edit, you will request peer-review. Four peers will review your edit and give you feedback. You will need to review 4 peers and give them feedback for each edit of yours reviewed. This works out to approximately 32 peer-reviews you will need to do during the semester.

Self-assessment

In using a self-assessment model, you will review the objectives and rubrics of the assignment, your edits and the peer-reviews of your edits. After doing so you will state the grade you think you have earned. This is neither the grade you want nor the grade you need. This is the grade of what you have produced: the edits you have done based upon the standards of the assignment.

You will write a self-assessment document which I will review. If I agree with the evidence you present for the grade you think your work has earned, then I will give you that grade. If you have not applied the assignment’s standards correctly or have not presented all of the required evidence I may need to give you another grade than the one you requested.

Learning Wikipedia

Introduction for students

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It has many millions (!) of editors (Wikipedians), many of whom are students like you. The vast majority of them are volunteers who find editing this site to be an enjoyable experience, even a hobby. Therefore I hope you will enjoy this exercise and the course! After all, there are not many exercises that tell you to do something that over a million people think is 'fun'.

Wikipedia:Tutorial is the best place to start your adventure with this wiki. Please familiarize yourself with instructions for students and if you have any questions, check the Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing or Help:Contents and if you cannot find what you are looking for, ask the friendly people at Wikipedia:Help desk - or just contact me.

The first thing you should do is create a user account create an account (video tutorial). You definitely need to have an account before attempting to do any wiki-related coursework (otherwise we will be unable to confirm if you have completed the exercise).

Remember that Wikipedia is not a project limited only to our university. We are guests here and we should all behave accordingly. Please make sure you read Wikipedia:Wikiquette. Please try to think what impression you want other Wikipedians to have of York College — and of yourselves.

You should expect that Dr Ashton, other students, your friends, and even (or especially) other Wikipedia editors (not affiliated with our course) will leave you various messages on your talk pages. When working on the exercises and assignments below, you should log in to Wikipedia and check your messages as often as you check your email (I strongly recommend you read 'as often' as 'at least daily'). Whenever you have a new message and are logged to Wikipedia, you will see a large orange message, 'You have new messages', on every Wikipedia page you access. To make this message disappear, you should click on it and read the message. Note that it is customary to leave new messages at the bottom of the talk/discussion pages, and to reply to somebody's messages on their talk pages. If you want to leave somebody a message, make sure you are editing their talk page, not their user page. Remember to sign your talk and discussion messages (you may want to watch this tutorial on using talk pages).

Some other useful tips: whenever you are done with an edit and want to save a page, fill out the edit summary box and view a preview of the page after your edit to make sure it looks as you actually want it to look. Only then click the "Save Page" button. You may find the page history tool and watchlist tools to be very useful when you want to check what changes by other editors have been made to the article(s) you are working on.

Please direct any questions to my talk page. You are welcome to send emails, or drop by to see me during our office hours, and ask about Wikipedia how-to; but please try to find the answer first on the Help:Contents.

Info you may have missed

Just above, in the Introduction to Students, I have you several assignments. Did you miss them?!?!?

Let me recap:

Do the Wikipedia:Tutorial
Review instructions for students
Review Wikipedia:FAQ/Editing
Review the Help:Contents
Watch video tutorial and create your account create an account
Follow Wikipedia:Wikiquette
Watch you may want to watch this tutorial on using talk pages and review and read

sign your talk and discussion messages

Wikipedia Basics

Assignment #1 - The Wikipedia Tutorial & Creating your Account

Read about Wikipedia's username policy
Watch this video video tutorial.
By now you should have a good idea of what you should choose as a username.
Do the Wikipedia Tutorial. At the end you will register your account.
Now go to the bottom of our class page to the class editors section and add your username.

Assignment #2 - Talk pages

On Bb, do the assignment where you register with me your Wikipedia username.
Place a message (and sign it) on the talkpage of someone you know in the class. Ask them a question. When you get asked something -- respond with a signed message on their talkpage.
One of you should post on my page that you had a conversation.

Assignment #3 Visit some userpages

Take notes on what you are allowed to have on a userpage and what you are not allowed to have on a userpage Wikipedia:Userpage.
Visit my userpage.
Visit some random userpages (they are there to be visited).
Go to a random article (click the Random Article link in the Nav bar on the left).
Then click the View History tab on the upper right. #You are now looking at the page edit history of the page.
After the date is the username for that editor. Click it to visit their page.
Visit several and record their usernames for this assignment.

Assignment #4 Pimp your userpage

Read the Learning Wikipedia assignment below. Take notes.
Determine the grade you wish to receive.
Work backwards and determine what your userpage needs to look like to receive the grade you wish.
Build your userpage.

Really pimp it out!

Really pimp it out, part 2!

Learning Wikipedia Assignment

In this assignment, you will demonstrate that you know how to navigate around Wikipedia, create pages and do basic markup editing.

You will need to create a userpage and fill it with appropriate information (for a Wikipedia userpage) and use basic Wikipedia markup language.

Please see my example on Wikipedia and the rubrics below for what to do/include in the page.

You cannot copy my example page onto your page.

Rubrics	Points possible
User page created	1 point
Asked someone to respond to your talk page and they did	1 point
Content box	1 point
Italics	1 point
Bold	1 point
Link to another Wikipedia page	1 point
Link to a non-Wikipedia page	1 point
Reference and footnote	2 point
(quality: 1 pt. = just one footnote/formatting looks bad; 2 pts. = more than one/nice formatting)
Strike	1 point
Show an image	1 point
At least two Section Headings	1 point
Bulleted list	1 point
Numbered list	1 point
Signed userpage	1 point
Sandbox	3 point
(quality: 1 pt = just a link to a sandbox; 2 pts = labeled link to sandbox; 3 pts = some content in sandbox)
Userbox	3 point
(number: 1 pt/userbox; note: must apply to you)
Account listed on course page	1 point
Total	21

Grade	At least
A+	21
A	18
B	16
C	12
D	8

To register your userpage to be peered reviewed:

Copy your userpage’s url
Post a request on the Blackboard wiki page, Userpage Peer Reviews using the peer-review request form
???
Profit

To redraft and be re-peer reviewed

On the Blackboard wiki page, Userpage Peer Reviews, strike your original entry.
Immediately below the old peer-reviews, post a new request.

To submit your peer-reviews for a grade

Wait for at least 4 peer reviews.
Complete the Userpage Self-Assessment form.
Include the four peer reviews.
Submit the file with the self-assessment form and peer-reviews in the dropbox on Bb. You can only submit for a grade once, so choose wisely.

To peer review

For full credit, you must do 4 reviews. Opportunities for doing more for extra credit will be announced

Go to the Blackboard wiki page, Userpage Peer Reviews
Find a userpage with the least number of existing peer-reviews
Make and date it to indicate you are in the process of doing a peer review
Do the peer review by filling out the peer-review form
Cut and paste the peer into the Bb wiki
Rinse
Repeat
Save your peer review forms
By the grading deadlines, submit all forms together in the Userpage Peer Review dropbox on Bb.

Userpage forms

please use the forms on Blackboard (they have the correct formatting)

Peer review request form
Self-assessment form
Peer-review form

Grading date

Self-assessments are due 2/27.

Editing Wikipedia

Becoming a Wikipedia Editor

Assignment #1 - What is Wikipedia?

Read about theWikipedia:Five pillars.
Notes, take notes.
Read about the Wikipedia:Core content policies.
Notes, take notes.
Bring these notes to class on the day assigned.

Assignment #2 - Behind the articles

We have already learned about Wikipedia:Talk_pages and Wikipedia:Page_history.

Review Wikipedia:Talk_pages and Wikipedia:Page_history
Read Help:Editing
Take notes.
Go to assignment #3

Assignment #3 - Edit wars

In Psychology, we use extreme examples to understand normal psychological processes (e.g. [[1]]) We'll now look at extreme examples to understand normal Wikipedia editing.

Read Wikipedia:Edit_war
Take notes
On Wikipedia, find an example of an edit war
Apply the material on Wikipedia:Edit_war & Wikipedia:Editing_policy to your example
Create a sandbox off of your userpage for this assignment
In the sandbox:
describe the edit war and provide links to the page histories
describe how this edit war meets the definition of an edit war - that is apply the definitions from #4
print out 2 hardcopies of your sandbox page and bring them to class on the assigned day

Assignment #4 - Wikipedia Wikiprojects & the Psychology Wikiproject

No actual assignment here. I offer you these pages to help you find material to edit!

What's a WikiProject
Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Psychology#categories -- Look in the Categories box under Branches of Psychology: Applied Psychology and Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/Tasks

Editing Wikipedia Assignment

This assignment will run most of the semester. In this assignment you will make several small edits to Wikipedia articles on topics related to our class. This assignment is based upon contracting for a grade, peer-review and self-assessment.

Starting out, the pre-edit peer-review and making the edit

Look in the textbook for I/O topics and search for them on Wikipedia.
Find a Wikipedia article which can be improved by information you have found in the text.
Check that article’s talk page regarding that information.
Prepare the edit information in your sandbox.
Post your Wikipedia Edit Assignment – Request for Pre-edit Peer Review on Bb
Receive at least 4 pre-edit peer-reviews.
Post on the talk page your intention to edit and invite editors to your sandbox to review your intended edit.
Wait at least 4 days.
Make the edit.
Monitor your edit and respond to questions on the talk page for at least 4 days.

Post-edit peer-review and self-assessment

On Bb, post your Wikipedia Edit Assignment – Request for Post-edit Peer Review
Receive at least four peer-reviews.
At the end of the semester, submit the self-assessment for your grade.

Self-Assessment

Wait for at least 4 peer reviews for each edit
Complete the Single Edit Self-Assessment Form
At the end of the semester, fill out the Self-Assessment Summary Form Include the peer reviews: group by edit and provide a heading, sort by order in the form above.
Submit the file with the self-assessment form and peer-reviews in the dropbox on Bb.
Wow, that was easy!

Editor Forms

please use forms provided on Blackboard (these will have formatting)

Wikipedia Edit Assignment – Request for Pre-edit Peer Review

Wikipedia Edit Assignment – Request for Post-edit Peer Review

Single Edit Self-Assessment Form

Self-Assessment Summary Form

Grade

Grade	At least
A+	60
A	52
B	46
C	40
D	34

Peer-Review Process

To Pre-edit peer review

Go to the Blackboard wiki page, Pre-edit Peer Reviews
Find a pre-edit peer-review request with the least number of existing peer-reviews
Add your name and date to indicate you are in the process of doing a peer review
Do the peer review
Cut and paste the peer onto the sandbox’s talk page
Submit a copy of your review to the Pre-Edit Peer Review dropbox on Bb.

To Post-edit peer review

For full credit, you must do 4 reviews. Opportunities for doing more for extra credit will be announced

Go to the Blackboard wiki page, Post-edit Peer Reviews
Find a edit peer-review request with the least number of existing peer-reviews
Make and date it to indicate you are in the process of doing a peer review
Do the peer review.
Cut and paste the peer into the Bb wiki
Save your peer review forms
By one of the grading deadlines, submit all forms together in the Edit Peer Review dropbox on Bb.

Peer-reviewer forms

please use forms provided on Blackboard (these will have formatting)

Pre-Edit Peer Review Feedback

Post-Edit Peer Review Form

Post-edit Peer-Review Rubrics

Evidence of posting ahead of the edit on the talk page (check to see if they posted four days before edit)	1 point
Signed post on talk page	1 point
Each response to questions on talk page	1 point
Sandbox with intended edit (check to see if they had the edit in their sandbox four days before the edit)	1 point
Number of sentences in edit	1 point
Appropriate image in edit	1 point
Appropriate link to another Wikipedia page or external page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link#Overlinking)	1 point
Textbook based reference information correct (the information in the footnote is correct)	1 point
Research article based reference information correct (the information in the footnote is correct)	1 point
Research article is empirical (check article to see if it’s empirical)	1 point
Research article is peer-reviewed (check PsycInfo to see if it’s peer-reviewed)	1 point
Research article is primary (check article to see if it’s empirical)	1 point
Reference and footnote formatted correctly	1 point
Each response on talk page after edit	1 point
Student made changes to article in response to editor comment	1 point
Each editor change to student’s edit	minus 1 point
Fancy formatting (1 point for each up to 3 points for each: new section w/ heading; bulleted list; numbered list etc)	3 points

Examples

1 textbook based edit (3 sentences)

Evidence of posting ahead of the edit on the talk page	1 point
Signed post on talk page	1 point
Each response to questions on talk page	0 points
Sandbox with intended edit	1 point
Number of sentences in edit	3 point
Appropriate image in edit	0 points
Appropriate link to another Wikipedia page or external page	0 points
Textbook based reference information correct	1 point
Research article based reference information correct	0 points
Research article is empirical	0 points
Research article is peer-reviewed	0 points
Research article is primary	0 points
Reference and footnote formatted correctly	1 point
Each response on talk page after edit	0 points
Student made changes to article in response to editor comment	0 points
Each editor change to student’s edit	0 points
Fancy formatting	0 points
Total	8

1 research article based edit (3 sentences)

Evidence of posting ahead of the edit on the talk page	1 point
Signed post on talk page	1 point
Each response to questions on talk page	0 points
Sandbox with intended edit	1 point
Number of sentences in edit	3 point
Appropriate image in edit	0 points
Appropriate link to another Wikipedia page or external page	0 points
Textbook based reference information correct	0 points
Research article based reference information correct	1 points
Research article is empirical	1 point
Research article is peer-reviewed	1 point
Research article is primary	1 point
Reference and footnote formatted correctly	1 point
Each response on talk page after edit	0 points
Student made changes to article in response to editor comment	0 points
Each editor change to student’s edit	0 points
Fancy formatting	0 points
Total	11

Grading date

Self-assessments are due 5/15.

Protecting Academic Integrity

There are two areas in this assignment where we need to pay special attention in order to protect academic integrity.

Plagiarism
Stating objectively verifiable misinformation

Plagiarism

Take care to not present another person's work as your own. Please see Wikipedia:Plagiarism. The first violation will results in a zero for that assignment. The second violation will result in a zero score for the course.

Stating objectively verifiable misinformation

The peer review and self-assessment models we are using are based upon peers and authors truthfully assessing assignments. The majority of the evaluations peers make and authors make on the self-assessment are objectively verifiable. For example, if a strikethrough is on the userpage the date of the peer-evaluation, then it can be verified by checking the page history; or if a student placed a message on a talk page 4 days before an edit, then it can be verified by looking at the talk page's history and the article page history.

Peer reviewers who misstate objectively verifiable information in order to falsely enhance a student's grade will receive a zero for their miscellaneous grade for the first incident. For the second incident, they will receive a zero for the course.

Students who misstate objectively verifiable information in order to falsely enhance their own grade will receive a zero for that assignment's grade for the first incident. For the second incident, they will receive a zero for the course.