User:Dquin3/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Bilingual education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I am currently taking classes to get my ESL/Bilingual endorsement while I am majoring in education. It matters because I am hoping to become a bilingual teacher and I want to know how a classroom could look like where students know two or more languages.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

The introduction to the article is very clear and simple as to what it is going to be about. It starts off by giving the reader of the article a definition for bilingual education.

Content

-Everything mentioned is relevant to bilingual education and is recent.

-Maybe something that can be added is the names of the languages that are usually offered in schools as part of the bilingual education program.

Tone and Balance

-The article overall sounds neutral as it is read. It's not persuasive or sways the reader from one viewpoint to another.

Sources and References

-Not everything seems to be backed up by sources, so more sources should be added to make the article a bit more reliable.

-The sources that are provided are very reliable and recent as well.

-The sources in the article are written by a diverse group of authors.

-Better sources are available but the sources already provided are mostly, if not all, peer-reviewed.

-Most of the links do work, but there are some that are not available anymore. The ones that are not available should be replaced to keep the information provided in the article creditable.

Organization and Writing Quality

-The article is written fairly well and is easy to read.

-There are a couple grammatical errors and run-on sentences that can be split into two different ones.

-The article is organized really good. The main points are sometimes categorized into smaller points to go into more detail.

Images and Media

-The article does include images that relate to the topic but as far as helping the reader understand the information better, they do not really help.

-The pictures are captioned good and do not violate any copyright regulations.

-There are only three small pictures that are off the very far right. They should be enlarged or more pictures should be added to make the article more appealing to the reader.

Talk Page Discussion

-There are many comments on how to rewrite things in the article to make it flow better. Also, to give the readers more information about the topic not only from the US, but from around the world.

-The article has been rated as C-Class and is part of WikiProjects Linguistics as well as WikiProjects Education.

Overall Impressions

-The overall status of the article is that it is very informative and recent.

-Some strengths in the article is that it mentions so many subtopics when it comes to Bilingual education and this information is organized really well. Also that many of the sources provided are very reliable as they are peer-reviewed.

-A weakness is that although it has many great sources, it does lack some in a couple of areas throughout the article.

-The article can be improved in many ways. Like mentioned, adding more images, sources, and changing how some of the sentences are worded so everything flows better.

-The article is well-developed but it can use a couple of things to take it to the next level.