Providing feedback
Research on organizational socialization shows that mentorship
and receiving feedback from experienced role models are
associated with positive socialization outcomes [2],[13]. An
important advantage of Wikipedia classroom assignments is
that students receive feedback on their work from the professor,
who is an expert in the field. To support faculty providing
feedback to students, the portal presented information about
students’ activity. Faculty were able to register their courses
with the portal and have their students sign up for the courses
through the portal. Once these processes were complete, the
portal automatically kept track of all students’ activity on the
portal and on Wikipedia, as shown in Figure 1.
Faculty could view the list of students in the class and a quantitative
summary about their activities, including the number