Findings are reported from student focus groups and a large-scale survey about how and why students (enrolled at six different U.S. colleges) use Wikipedia during the course-related research process. A majority of respondents frequently used Wikipedia for
"High school students are challenged to complete original and independent research that is characteristic of college-level courses. BCPS students generate a research question, conduct a literature review, collaborate with content-area experts, develop an hypothesis, collect and analyze data, and present original research at an annual Student Independent Research Symposium."
"A new study overturns the common assumption that the 'Google Generation' - youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age - is the most web-literate. The first ever virtual longitudinal study carried out by the CIBER research team at University Colleg
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