A new frontier: developing an undergraduate assessment task aimed at improving the representation of biomedical scientific information on Wikipedia

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2020, Pages 972-983

  Fraser, Stuart T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

assessment; digital literacy; higher education; Wikipedia and science

Indexed keywords

EID: 85083586941     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1749794     Document Type: Article

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