Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University, Fresno/Psych 244 - Research Methods (Fall 2019)

Basic introduction to psychological research methods for students in all three psychology graduate programs at Fresno State: experimental, applied behavior analysis, and school. Includes formulating good research questions, reviewing the research literature, designing empirical studies, analyzing data, and writing in APA style. Emphasizes being a critical and responsible consumer of psychological research (with the expectation that students learn details of how research is done in their specialty field by working on projects with their faculty mentors).

Week 2
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

What's a content gap?

Week 5
Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 6
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Psychology

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 8
Designate one group member's article sandbox as the official one. At the top, add a heading &quot;Editing Plan&quot; and below that write at least one full paragraph on how you are planning to change your assigned article, two new references that you are planning to use, and a summary of how you are splitting the work among group members. Note that proposed changes should involve a minimum of one paragraph of new or thoroughly edited text per group member and at least two reference changes per group member. Reference changes can include adding references and deleting references with a clear rationale (e.g., unreliable, biased, inaccurately described). You do not have to indicate this in your paragraph here but your changes automatically must include a light editing of the entire article for spelling, grammar, clarity, and accuracy. This will typically include numerous small edits. This assignment will be worth 5 points of the 30 points alloted for the final article.

Week 9
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Exercise
Add links to your article

Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Week 11
The assignment is to be roughly halfway to completing your editing plan. In your designated sandbox, write an updated editing plan that specifies 1) what changes have been made, 2) what changes remain to be made, and 3) what each group member has contributed. Make sure at this time that each group member has a working link to this designated sandbox in their own sandbox. This will be worth 10 more points out of the 30 points originally allocated for the final article.

Week 12
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 13
Guiding questions

Guiding questions

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.