User:Kbroderick24/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Education

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the article: Education because it pertains to the area on which I am focusing. It is important to have the basic understanding of what education is and why it is important before diving deeper into understanding how kids function better while being educated. My impression of it was considerably basic in that I understand what education is and what goes into a school’s organization, but I lacked more specifically what school is like outside of America as well as the history of how education became to be in the first place.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

After reviewing the read section within the article, this article does show that it has an extraordinarily strong lead section. For starters it clearly defines what education is before it then introduces the major sections. I also found that the overall contents do match what is presented in the article and that there is no additional information that is not labeled. Another key to this strong lead section is that they are concise in their information and not overly detailed.

Content:

After the lead section introduced the main topic ideas, I then followed through to look over the content within the sections. After reviewing the sections information, I did find that the information was all up to date and relevant. I also found that a lot of the information filled in the gaps and supported unconventional forms of education. An area that I would think would be neglected when covering the topic of education. Overall, the content was well thought out and supported.

Tone and Balance:

When it came to the overall tone and balance of the article, I found that it did support a nice balance and its tone was neutral. Like I mentioned within the content, the article overall supported a lot of different viewpoints equally and even supported viewpoints that I would have never considered/thought about. It simply just showed the history and the importance through facts and statistics without having the bias about education.

Sources and References:

When looking at the sources and references pertaining to the support of the information within the article is where this article seemed to lack. Overall, the sources that had been provided were alliable and had useful information in order to support the article. The sources were also current, and they came from a multitude of authors in various backgrounds. I personally did not think other than what they had provided that a random website would have done much better in supporting the information for this article. Also, all of the links that were provided worked. Now in the beginning I mentioned that the area where this article seems to lack is the amount of information to support the plethora of information within this article. In order to make this better I think that there should be more sources with evidence that supports the information provided within this article.

Organization and writing quality:

The article is professionally written and organized according to the Lead Section overview of the information. Each of the sections within the article are professionally written and thought out in many different viewpoints. While reading it the information provided allowed for a flow to happen where I was not stopping and asking myself out of confusion about what I was reading. This was again just due to how professionally written and organized the information was for each of the sections.

Images and Media:

The images and media within this section are beautifully written and adhere to all of the standards set by Wikipedia. I also was amazed at the certain photos that they used just due to how much they help to understand the information that is being provided within the article. I personally liked the photos that they utilized to talk about the history of education as it was really nice to put faces to the names of who they were talking about.

Talk page discussion:

The conversations that are going on behind the scenes of this article is that they are discussing what is the better ways to phrase items within the article that go with the guidelines and do not pose the risk for bias within the article. I read one particularly that simply stated that education is becoming increasingly important- which is something that I would not think twice about writing but it can be seen as bias. The article overall is rated C because I think it does lack sources. I also did find a pop up that agreed that it did lack in sources after I came to that conclusion which I thought was really cool. Also, this article is part of multiple wikiprojects all surrounding different areas of study.

Overall impressions:

Overall, I would agree with the status or grade of this article being a C. After diving deeper into the information that the article provides, I do see where evidence is lacking in support the claims made and that there are claims that could be seen as biased. I mentioned a lot of the strengths above but again they did an excellent job with the overview, the photos, and the information that it contains. I do think though that they can do a better job at finding more evidence in order to support their claims and even revising some statements in order to curate it to be more neutral. Overall, this articles completeness is well-developed with minor improvements that could be added pertaining to supporting more up to date claims/information.