Examining potential mechanisms underlying the Wikipedia gender gap through a collaborative editing task

Examining the gender wealth gap

Gender Gap Through Time and Space: A Journey Through Wikipedia Biographies and the "WIGI" Index

In this study we investigate how quantification of Wikipedia biographies can shed light on worldwide longitudinal gender inequality trends. We present an academic index allowing comparative study of gender inequality through space and time, the Wikipedia Gender Index (WIGI), based on metadata available through the Wikidata database. Our research confirms that gender inequality is a phenomenon w...

Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth in general rest on the assumption of pooling and equal sharing of resources by all members of a given household. Examining the distribution of income and wealth within the household context is almost always hampered by the lack of individual level data. Based on unique individual level wealth data from the German S...

Running head: MECHANISMS UNDERLYING COLLABORATIVE INHIBITION

250 words) Although a group of people working together remembers more than any one individual, they recall less than their predicted potential. This finding is known as collaborative inhibition, and is generally thought to arise due to retrieval disruption. However, there is growing evidence that is inconsistent with the retrieval disruption account, suggesting that additional mechanisms also c...

Teaching Academic Vocabulary Through Reconstruction Editing Task: Does Group Size Matter?

The use of collaborative classroom interactional tasks is on the rise recently since they incorporate the negotiation of meaning and thus they may be regarded as one of the most efficient ways to ease a learner’s focus on form. This study investigated the immediate and long-term effects of reconstruction editing task on the learning of 20 academic vocabulary items through using five reconstruct...