How students use Wikipedia?!?

College students love Wikipedia, and a study published in the journal First Monday offers details on how they use the Web encyclopedia.

Among the findings of a survey at six different colleges:

• A majority frequently used it for background information, but less often than they used course readings and Google.
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  Architecture, engineering, and science majors were more likely to use Wikipedia for course research than were those in other majors.
  
• Wikipedia is generally used in combination with other information, not alone.
  

Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg. How students use Wikipedia First Monday, Volume 15, Number 3 - 1 March 2010.

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2830/2476

[credit: Inside Higher Education, March 17, 2010]