Teachers' Use of Wikipedia with Their Students

From Wikipedia Quality
Jump to: navigation, search


Teachers' Use of Wikipedia with Their Students
Authors
Hagit Meishar-Tal
Publication date
2015
DOI
10.14221/ajte.2015v40n12.9
Links
Original

Teachers' Use of Wikipedia with Their Students - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2015, written by Hagit Meishar-Tal.

Overview

One of the most impressive phenomena in the creation and dissemination of human knowledge in recent years is Wikipedia, an encyclopedia written collaboratively by Web users. Nevertheless, teachers tend to oppose the use of wikipedia by their students and question its reliability. This paper explores the perceptions of k-12 school teachers in Israel towards the quality of the information in wikipedia and the reasoning they hold for these perceptions. Findings show that most of the teachers perceive Wikipedia as an environment of middling to poor reliability, accuracy, and timeliness. Many teachers do not realize how authoritative information is when generated by “wisdom of crowds” and interpret it as unacceptable and untrustworthy.

Embed

Wikipedia Quality

Meishar-Tal, Hagit. (2015). "[[Teachers' Use of Wikipedia with Their Students]]". Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/. DOI: 10.14221/ajte.2015v40n12.9.

English Wikipedia

{{cite journal |last1=Meishar-Tal |first1=Hagit |title=Teachers' Use of Wikipedia with Their Students |date=2015 |doi=10.14221/ajte.2015v40n12.9 |url=https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Teachers'_Use_of_Wikipedia_with_Their_Students |journal=Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/}}

HTML

Meishar-Tal, Hagit. (2015). &quot;<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Teachers'_Use_of_Wikipedia_with_Their_Students">Teachers' Use of Wikipedia with Their Students</a>&quot;. Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/. DOI: 10.14221/ajte.2015v40n12.9.