Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/San Diego State University/Methods of Inquiry - School Counseling and School Psychology (Summer 2017)

This course is designed to provide graduate students in the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation, and Postsecondary Education with an introduction to educational and psychological research. Moreover, it is intended to enable students to become critical evaluators of educational and psychological research and provides an overview of (a) the historical and philosophical context of research, (b) library literature searches/reviews, (c) quantitative and qualitative research design methodologies, (d) basic concepts in research design, analyses, and interpretation, (e), basic descriptive and inferential statistics and (f) the influence of culture on the design, implementation, and evaluation of applied research.

Week 1

 * Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
 * It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
 * When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

This is the start of your topic selection phase. Please refer to Blackboard to complete and submit your Free Write assignment.

Week 2
Refer to Blackboard to submit your Topic Proposals. Once you have feedback from me, return to your sandbox and include the topic proposal there.


 * Review page 6 of your Editing Wikipedia guidebook.

Week 3
Create this annotated Bibliography and submit to Blackboard.

Once you feel good about which articles you will be using, post the references to the TALK page of the page that you will be contributing to on Wikipedia. This will give the other editors a heads up that you would like to add these resources to the site.

Week 5
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Editing an existing article?


 * NEVER copy and paste your draft of an article over the entire article. Instead, edit small sections at a time.
 * Copy your edits into the article. Make many small edits, saving each time, and leaving an edit summary. Never replace more than one to two sentences without saving!

Creating a new article?


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 13, and follow those steps to move your article from your Sandbox to Mainspace.
 * You can also review the Sandboxes and Mainspace online training.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 12 to see how to create links from your article to others, and from other articles to your own. Try to link to 3–5 articles, and link to your article from 2–3 other articles.

Week 6
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 Content Expert at any time!

Refer to guidelines posted on Blackboard