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{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|{{{1|Student attitudes towards Wikipedia as a learning resource}}}|By [[User:Jtmorgan|Jonathan Morgan]]| 28 October 2015}}
This paper<ref>{{cite journal|title=“You get what you need” : A study of students’ attitudes towards using Wikipedia when doing school assignments|author=Blikstad-Balas, Marte|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00313831.2015.1066428<|journal=Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research|date=2015|volume=3831|issue=October|pages=1-15}}</ref> reports findings from a survey of Norwegian secondary school students about their use of Wikipedia in the context of their coursework. The survey of 168 students between the ages of 18 and 19 consisted of 33 [[Likert_scale|likert scale]] questions and two free response questions. The goal was to assess how Wikipedia figured into students' ''literacy practices'', a concept
The main finding of the study is that students' attitudes towards Wikipedia are overwhelmingly positive, but they find the information presented in Wikipedia less trustworthy than their official course materials. Although 90% of respondents rated their textbooks as more trustworthy, they cited the ease of finding factual information (such as dates, names, etc) as a key reason for preferring Wikipedia. They also reported that Wikipedia was better than their textbooks at explaining the "big picture" of a given topic, as well as facilitating more in-depth exploration. In the words of one survey respondent: "If you need to, you can read elaborations about a given topic, or you can just read the summary if that is what you need."
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