Dr. Scott Bowman created a wiki project for his juvenile justice course to address common student misconceptions and promote a more accurate understanding of factors influencing juvenile involvement in the justice system. Students were assigned zip codes and socioeconomic variables, then researched available juvenile services and issues in their area. Throughout the semester, wiki assignments correlated to textbook chapters and enhanced classroom discussion. The project improved communication, collaboration, and writing compared to previous versions that relied more on traditional lectures and research papers. A survey found the wiki project was an effective teaching method.

1. Teaching With SAKAI Innovation Award “Juvenile Justice” - Wiki Project Dr. Scott Bowman Assistant Professor – Criminal Justice Texas State University – San Marcos June 16, 2010

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12. Teaching With SAKAI Innovation Award 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 In the previous version of this course, the communication and collaboration were primarily traditional classroom interactions between instructor and student. This project enhanced the overall interactions between instructor and student, as well as amongst students. Since each individual was responsible for creating a particular wiki page and providing feedback to their peers’ wiki pages, it enhanced the overall communication within the course. Moreover, since the wiki page assignments correlated to the major course topics, the classroom discussion was also enhanced. (e.g. “Prevention / Diversion” chapter) Textbook discussion / Traditional lecture Wiki project Guest speaker (teen court)

13. Teaching With SAKAI Innovation Award 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 In addition, the CJ3300 course is a “writing intensive course.” Previous versions of this course involved a 10-12 page final research paper on the related topic of the student’s choice. One of the drawbacks of the traditional paper is that the topic is specific and often does not draw on the overall course topics. For the WIKI project, the writing remained intensive, while also encouraging students to write on a variety of subjects and address a variety of issues. Previously, final papers on the subject of “gangs” would make-up approximately 2/3rds of all final papers. With the WIKI project, not only did everyone write on the subject of gangs, but everyone also wrote on policing, treatment, diversion & prevention, institutionalization, and juvenile courts.

14. Teaching With SAKAI Innovation Award 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 To measure the effectiveness of the Juvenile WIKI project, a mixed-methods survey was provided to examine the effectiveness of the project.

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