User:Cbright6/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Climate Change Education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
To start, I had no idea it was a specific thing, I thought it was more general and the fact it has a acronym surprised me. I chose the article to evaluate because it is relevant to our class on climate change. It matters because educating the world on climate change is the first major step to actually making a difference and pushing for action.

Evaluate the article

 * lead
 * The lead is concise and to the point, offering definitions as well as an explanation of what CCE is
 * It does not mention specifically where the article is going but it does not offer new information from what is presented in the remainder of the article
 * Content
 * Its content is very focused on the topic because it gives a general overview of what the world is doing to promote CCE through UNESCO, then branches into major countries and what they are doing
 * The content seems a little out dated because it seems like most of the references to years are 2015 and before, with some references to goals due in the year 2020, which has already past, but no reference as to if they succeeded
 * Based on the article it seems like they hit on most of topic but there are so many other countries to choose from when selecting their specific policies that the article will always leave out some population of people
 * Tone and balance
 * There does not seem to be any bias, just factual information
 * There are some groups underrepresented in the information because they only touch on policy in Australia, China, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, United Kingdom, Republic of Korea and Vietnam
 * Although this seems to be a wide variety of areas across the globe
 * Sources and references
 * All of the facts do seem to have a reliable secondary source to back the claim up
 * The majority of the information is cited through a UNESCO publication called Not Just Hot Air: Putting Climate Change Education into Practice, the information should be more well versed and retell information from a better variety of sources
 * The links I checked work
 * Organization and writing quality
 * The article is well organized, focused, and written well with no visible grammar or spelling errors
 * Images and media
 * There are no images which makes the article less appealing and harder to follow
 * Talk page
 * The article was a part of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, within the scope of WikiProject Climate Change (C class, low importance), and within the scope of WikiProject Education (C class, low importance)
 * The talk page includes information and opinion on the impact of climate change education. It includes sources and studies to back the claim up, as well as details on how students typically feel that climate change education goes a long way.
 * It also includes a section on new ways of fighting climate change. It includes an opinion by a wiki writer on what we can do.
 * The discussion is more backed on its importance rather than factual information, which makes it a bit different from class, in which we are hit with facts
 * Impressions
 * The article didn't have a great transition to the information, and did not introduce it in the lead, it only defined it. It also just jumped from country to country with no reasonable explanation which seemed a bit erratic. Improving this would go a long way.
 * It seems a little underdeveloped with no real end, it just ends on detail and talking about a country and their CCE efforts
 * It has many details though about what countries are doing and this helps add to the knowledge gained from the article
 * Overall, it is a pretty good article that needs a little more refining in order to be more satisfactory