User:Anniecprice/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

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 * Education in Niger
 * Article Evaluation
 * I have chosen this article to evaluate because it is about a system that has ranked lowest on the UN's Education Index. The Lead does include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic. It does not include a description of the article's major sections. It also does not include information that is not present in the article. The Lead is concise, but overly so, without any expansion or overview of the rest of the article. The article's content is relevant to the topic, but a lot of the sources are from 2014 or 2015. Some content is missing because there isn't much description of what schooling is actually like for children in Niger. Instead, the article currently focuses mainly on how education is organized in theory, even if this is not implemented in practice. The sources are reputable, and backed up by links that go to surveys or scholarly articles. But there are simply not enough of these sources, and some of the ones included are from before 2010 and therefore may need to be updated. The article is decently organized, but only has two sections––one on organization of primary education and one on tertiary education. This could be further broken down into sections on gender disparity, educational outcomes, literacy rates, etc. There are no grammar or spelling mistakes. The article only has one small image of a primary school classroom in Niger, which does not provide much to support the text. In the talk page, someone posted in 2017 that the article would benefit from a section on languages of instruction, so I can look into that. There is also one other post from a bot modifying the external link for a source. Other than that, the talk page is empty. The article is part of the WikiProject Education and WikiProject Africa. It has a "Start-Class" rating on both projects. Overall, the article doesn't contain misleading, biased, or irrelevant content––but that content that is there needs to be greatly expanded. While it cites reliable surveys, these statistics are not enough to provide a developed picture of the education system in Niger.
 * I have chosen this article to evaluate because it is about a system that has ranked lowest on the UN's Education Index. The Lead does include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic. It does not include a description of the article's major sections. It also does not include information that is not present in the article. The Lead is concise, but overly so, without any expansion or overview of the rest of the article. The article's content is relevant to the topic, but a lot of the sources are from 2014 or 2015. Some content is missing because there isn't much description of what schooling is actually like for children in Niger. Instead, the article currently focuses mainly on how education is organized in theory, even if this is not implemented in practice. The sources are reputable, and backed up by links that go to surveys or scholarly articles. But there are simply not enough of these sources, and some of the ones included are from before 2010 and therefore may need to be updated. The article is decently organized, but only has two sections––one on organization of primary education and one on tertiary education. This could be further broken down into sections on gender disparity, educational outcomes, literacy rates, etc. There are no grammar or spelling mistakes. The article only has one small image of a primary school classroom in Niger, which does not provide much to support the text. In the talk page, someone posted in 2017 that the article would benefit from a section on languages of instruction, so I can look into that. There is also one other post from a bot modifying the external link for a source. Other than that, the talk page is empty. The article is part of the WikiProject Education and WikiProject Africa. It has a "Start-Class" rating on both projects. Overall, the article doesn't contain misleading, biased, or irrelevant content––but that content that is there needs to be greatly expanded. While it cites reliable surveys, these statistics are not enough to provide a developed picture of the education system in Niger.


 * Sources
 * Kate Greany (2008) Rhetoric versus reality: exploring the rights‐based approach to girls' education in rural Niger, Compare, 38:5, 555-568, DOI: 10.1080/03057920802351317
 * Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina (2006). Broadening access to primary education: contract teacher programs and their impact on education outcomes in Africa – an econometric evaluation for Niger. In: Menkhoff, Lukas. Pro-poor growth. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 117-149.
 * Chekaraou, Ibro, and Nana Aicha Goza. "Gender and Education in Niger: Access and Retention of Women in Higher Education Institutions." CICE Series 5.1 (2013): 65-77.
 * Birgit Brock-Utne (2001) Education for all - in whose language?, Oxford Review of Education, 27:1, 115-134, DOI: 10.1080/03054980125577

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